Re: manually assigned mac address

[Richard Worwood <mlists tdbnetworks org>]

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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrey Andreev
> University of Helsinki
> Dept. of Computer Science
>