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From: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
To: Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade@ints.net>
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Subject: Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?
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Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> 
>> I'm running 5.3 STABLE.
>>
>> I need to change the MAC address of my PC.
>>
>> I know it can be done like this:
>>
>>    ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
>>
>> So I guessed I could make life a little easier by
>> adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:
>>
>> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask
>> 255.255.255.0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"
>>
>> However, this does not seem to work. No IP address
>> is assigned to the LAN card after bootup.
>> Apparently something is wrong here.
>> Any idea how I can do this at bootup?
>
>   ifconfig_rl0_alias0="ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"

That works indeed. Thanks so much!

Rob.



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