On 21 Jan 2003 18:39:40 GMT, Joel Wilsson wrote:

> Would you like to do something like this?
> ifconfig en0 link 00:03:93:ce:11:32
> 
> I think I can throw together a patch for ifconfig to enable that...
> but I seem to recall there already is a way to change the MAC
> address. Or maybe that was in some other BSD. I couldn't find
> anything about it in ifconfig.c either.

FreeBSD's ifconfig uses "lladdr" (from FreeBSD ifconfig.8):

lladdr addr
        Set the link-level address on an interface.  This can be used to
        e.g. set a new MAC address on an ethernet interface, though the
        mechanism used is not ethernet-specific.  The address addr is
        specified as a series of colon-separated hex digits.  If the
        interface is already up when this option is used, it will be
        briefly brought down and then brought back up again in order to
        ensure that the receive filter in the underlying ethernet hard-
        ware is properly reprogrammed.

-- 
Chris