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Date:      Fri, 25 Jun 1999 21:18:12 +1200
From:      "Dan Langille" <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
To:        Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: How to set MAC address ?
Message-ID:  <19990625092052.ZOWV688839.mta2-rme@wocker>
In-Reply-To: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796A0@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>

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On 25 Jun 99, at 21:14, Dan Langille wrote:

> I suspect that is because the MAC address is hardcoded into the card and 
> cannot be changed.

On 25 Jun 99, at 11:11, Ladavac Marino wrote:

> 	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)

I stand corrected.
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