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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:42:12 +0200
From:      Volodymyr Kostyrko <arcade@ints.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?
Message-ID:  <cvt41j$8rm$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050227135449.63995.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050227135449.63995.qmail@web54002.mail.yahoo.com>

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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"

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[WBR], Arcade. [SAT Astronomy/Think to survive!]



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