From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 2:15: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119F41558E for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:14:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:17:35 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796A0@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Emmanuel Duros' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: How to set MAC address ? Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:11:48 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Emmanuel Duros [SMTP:Emmanuel.Duros@sophia.inria.fr] > Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 11:06 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: How to set MAC address ? > > Hi, > > How can I set a MAC address to an Ethernet card different from the > default ? (in case the device supports the operation) [ML] There was already a thread on that topic; please search the mail archives. The consensus was that practically all cards support that, that some drivers actually have to do it (they copy the SROM MAC) but that there is no ifconfig support, nor an ioctl which would export that functionality to the user space (IIRC) /Marino To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message