On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Brad Salai wrote:

> Do you think it would do any good, or harm to ifconfig the card with its
> hardware address? That is rather than a made up ip address. What is the
> effect of the hardware address being in a different format?

No. And I don't think it will let you do this anyway. The hardware address
of an ethernet card (also known as the "ethernet address" or "MAC address" -
[don't read MAC as "Macintosh", it means "Media Access Control", a hardware
ethernet term] ) is assigned by the manufacturer and cannot be changed.

The hardware address (or ethernet address or MAC address) is seperate from 
and independent from the IP address, although in a fully configured, working 
system there is sort of a "mapping" between the two.

	--John

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