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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:45:33 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
To:        Eduardo Meyer <dudu.meyer@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ifconfig won't allow me to change ether address and inet address in the same command
Message-ID:  <20081021204532.GA83935@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <d3ea75b30810211148l798ee274s77081b12962d15f4@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d3ea75b30810211148l798ee274s77081b12962d15f4@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0200, Eduardo Meyer wrote:
> Hello :)
> 
> Please, follow:
> 
> # ifconfig rl0 ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3 inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig: can't set link-level netmask or broadcast
> 
> # ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3
> ifconfig: ether: bad value
> 
> # ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0
> # ifconfig rl0 ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3
> 
> I ask you some help, how can I accomplish both tasks with rc_ng? In /etc/rc.conf
> 
> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.2.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3"
> 
> Won't allow me to do what I want. Any suggestions? I would like like
> to edit /etc/rc.local and any other kind of "workaround". Can rc.conf
> issue ifconfig twice for the same nic?

What about:

ifconfig_rl0="ether 00:02:4f:0a:ce:f3"
ipv4_addrs_rl0="192.168.2.12/24"

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org



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