> 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.

I thought what Brad meant was the other way around; i.e. see the MAC
address, take the number whatever it is, and give it to the interface
as its IP.  And, although it is possible, it doesn't make any sense at
all.

ken