Fake eth0

[Tony Dietrich]

On Friday 17 Feb 2006 12:47, Nguyen Danh Hieu wrote:
> I did exactly as you said and MAC's faked but the trouble remains. cannot
> determine IP informations if I startup dhcp and no pakage in-out if I use
> static IP. what should I do?
>
> On 2/17/06, gb spam <gbofspam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/17/06, Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi everybody.
> > >  Sorry for my poor English but I have a trouble with ethernet
> > > interface.
> >
> > I
> >
> > > have a new LAN-card on  my machine but MAC-addresss of old card is
> > > registered so I have to fake MAC address of the new to be able to use
> >
> > LAN. I
> >
> > > do it with command:
> > >  /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
> > >  /sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >  /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
> > >
> > >  and MAC is faked, but after that card seem to not work.  no packages
> >
> > are
> >
> > > send and received.  When I restart computer Lan-card work again but
> > > with
> >
> > his
> >
> > > own MAC so is not registered.
> > >
> > >  Please help me out of the  problem.
> > >  Thank you.
> > > --
> > > ===================
> > > Nguyen Danh Hieu
> > >
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> > > Moscow State University
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> > Hieu,
> >
> > You need to set the faked MAC address in the network device config.
> > For example, add
> >
> >   MACADDR=00:01:02:03:04:05
> >
> > To
> >
> >   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> >
> > Don't remove the HWADDR line.  Then do a "service network restart" or
> > reboot.
> >
Firewall problem?  Try disabling your firewall as a test. Don't forget to put 
it back up.
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