I'll admit being ignorant of higher-level cards, but to my knowledge, MAC
addresses are fixed, like a serial number, on the network card.
Having the ability to pick your MAC address on a local LAN would cause the
same problems as putting your card into promiscuous mode -- you could
intercept traffic intended for other machines. I really don't see this as
being likely.
Thus, I'm almost certain that the cards these drivers support don't allow
anything like this. I can't promise that for higher-end cards, though.
Jeremy Weatherford
xidus@xxxxxxxxx
http://xidus.net
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Ben Greear wrote:
> I took a peek at the rtl and tulip drivers, and neither implement
> the ability to set the MAC address. (ifconfig shows the MAC is
> set, but the card won't accept the pkts unless it's in promisc mode.)
>
> Was this not implemented in these drivers because the hardware
> doesn't support it, or just because the coders didn't get around
> to it?
>
> If it's the latter, anyone wanna volunteer a patch? :)
>
> --
> Ben Greear (greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear
> Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL)
> http://scry.wanfear.com
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