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[jim@xxxxxxxxx (Jim Bruer)]

I've used this frequently to avoid the Mediaone phone queu. Discovered it on
Robert Zieglers firewall site.
This is the relatively obscure man page reference:
man:ifconfig (8)

ifconfig [interface]
ifconfig interface [aftype] options | address ... 
.. . . .
hw class address
Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device driver supports this operation. 
The keyword must be followed by the name of the hardware class and the
printable ASCII equivalent of the hardware address. Hardware classes currently
supported include ether (Ethernet), ax25 (AMPR AX.25), ARCnet and netrom (AMPR
NET/ROM). 

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Darren R. Weber wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jim Bruer wrote:
> > ifconfig eth0 hw xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
> > I believe assigns a new NIC card MAC address to the NIC found at interface eth0.
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > > Isent there a way to get/reset the mac address just for this purpose ? 
> > 
> 
> To my knowledge a hardware address is just that . . .an address embeded in the
> hardware.  I would assume stored in a eeprom or something like that.  I would
> guess there is a way to flash it with a new address given the proper hardware
> and software, but I thought ifconfig could only report the address to you.
> 
> --

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jim Bruer wrote:
> > ifconfig eth0 hw xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
> > I believe assigns a new NIC card MAC address to the NIC found at interface eth0.
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > > Isent there a way to get/reset the mac address just for this purpose ? 
> > 
> 
> To my knowledge a hardware address is just that . . .an address embeded in the
> hardware.  I would assume stored in a eeprom or something like that.  I would
> guess there is a way to flash it with a new address given the proper hardware
> and software, but I thought ifconfig could only report the address to you.
> 


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