On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Terry Collins wrote: > Peter Hardy wrote: > > > Out of interest - why would you want to change the MAC anyway? > > The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor - > you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
You also need to be able to change the MAC address for some older protocols from DEC and IBM. Ethernet card failover schemes also require the spare ethernet card to take the address of the failed ethernet card. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
