Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:20:35 +0100 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter Message-ID: <AANLkTinB_CFrZN6oHGS3DA5TZnfafggc95MX=juTgKp=@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110123023834.19098.qmail@joyce.lan> References: <20110123023834.19098.qmail@joyce.lan>
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:38 AM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote: > My Lenovo laptop running 8.1 has two ordinary Intel network adapters, > a wired PRO/1000 with the em driver and a WiFi PRO/Wireless 5300 with > the iwn driver. =A0They work fine, but for either one if I use ifconfig > to change the MAC address, the adapter won't actually work until I > change the address back to the native one. =A0Typical symptoms are > endless DHCP queries with no response. > > Is this a known problem? =A0As far as I know, it's supposed to work. How you change MAC address? With "ether" command?
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