Re: Setting MAC addr on ethernet cards?

[Rob Walker <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:46:27 -0700, Ben Greear
>>>>> <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

>> AFAIR usually the command is ~
>> 
>> # ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01
>> #

Ben> That definately makes it **look** like it was set, but unless the
Ben> underlying driver does the work to send the bytes out to the
Ben> card, then you are just in a fuzzy state where your system only
Ben> works when you are watching it with tcpdump, because it's in
Ben> promisc mode then!  (Don't ask how long it took me to figure
Ben> **that** little wierdness out!!) :)

Ben> I would say it's definately very much needed, especially as Linux
Ben> moves into the world of High Availibility and embedded
Ben> applications....

very very much needed.

rob