Subject: Re: manually setting MAC address
To: Nathan de Klepper <nathandeklepper@optushome.com.au>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/28/2002 19:13:45
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Nathan de Klepper wrote:

> Just wondering if anyone knows how to manually configure a MAC address
> to a specific value. Most of the MAC related posts ive looked through
> seem to deal with local-mac-address? on sun boxes, but thats not what
> im after.

You currently can't on NetBSD. I once looked at implementing this,
because I'd really value the capability too, and it didn't look all that
hard. I suspect an experienced kernel hacker could implement it with a
few hours work. For me it was looking like a rather longer project, and
as usual I ran out of time.

cjs
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