Subject: Re: Ethernet [MAC] addresses
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@pointless.net>
From: Mark White <mark.white@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/22/2001 17:18:44
Jasper Wallace writes:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Mark White wrote:
> > > Mark White wrote
> > However, on pretty much every NIC around, this is just the
> > *default* address for packet control; the address actually
> > *used* for incoming and outgoing packets doesn't have to be
> > the default hardware address.  Some systems (linux and
> > solaris, in particular) implement an ioctl for doing so; you
> > can do something like "ifconfig eth0 hw 00:11:22:33:44:55"
> > in linux, or "ifconfig ne1 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55" in
> > solaris [I forget the exact syntax].
> 
> I thought (the ioctl at least) has been implemented in -current whithin the
> last few months, there was some talk about VRRP at the time too.

You can't remember the name of the new ioctl, can you?

Mark <><