as I suspected the ifconfig hw ether statement works just fine,
unfortunately however when I specify a HWADDR within the config file it
just errors telling me that the mac specified doesn't match the one on
the card.
Does anyone know how to resolve this one ?
Thanks In Advance
Richard
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:52 +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote:
Richard Worwood wrote:
> I'm trying to work out how to configure a manually assigned mac address
> onto an interface without much luck.
>
> Does anyone know how ?
>
Hi,
As root, do
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ifconfig eth0 up
assuming that your NIC device is eth0, and substituting the xx:xx.. with
the desired MAC address.
If that does thhe job for you, you might want to edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
and set it there (I think the parameter was called HWADDR, but I am away
from a fedora box)
Greets,
//Andro
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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science