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Re: MAC address issue



On Jan 17, 2008 5:22 PM, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> Well.. I think the discussions came down to points about how netbsd
> supported actually changing the mac address of a card in its firmware
> sometimes, so "faking it" on cards that didn't support such activities
> didn't seem clean.  I personally like the idea of using a virtual
> interface when I'm doing this sort of thing.
>

Hmm that seems to be reasonable, cleaner and simpler (in coding). I'm
satisfied by Your answer. Thank You.

P.S.
Maybe I missed it but it would be nice to make something like hint (or
tip) in guide pointing to this nice etherip(4) trick...

Cheers...



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