manually assigned mac address
Andrey Andreev
andreev at cs.helsinki.fi
Tue Nov 2 18:44:21 UTC 2004
Richard Worwood wrote:
> 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.
>
As Chris Johnson wrote:
<quote>
In any case inspection of the ifup script and testing indicate that it
is possible to do within the interface configurations. Include the
following directive in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
configuration file, substituting the desired mac address:
MACADDR=00:11:22:33:44:55
</quote>
Good luck,
Andro
PS: Please don't top post. It makes answering hard.
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