Subject: Re: Changing MAC addresses?
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/15/2000 13:02:18
In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006151341550.2765-100000@fmh.fw.eu.fulton.blink.com
>, Curt Sampson writes:
>Are you going to be adding facilities to the kernel so that we can set
>hardware-level addresses for an interface in the same way that we can
>set higher-level addresses?

As I understand it, this is only possible on some hardware...

>It would be nice to have user-land fail-over programs be able to take
>over for another machine with `ifconfig le0 ethernet 8:0:20:12:34:56'
>or whatever.

Yeah.

-s