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Re: Depending on 2.4



On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:12:56AM -0500, sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> > Another thing it does is to change the MAC address of any/all ethernet cards 
> > in the system (requiring a reboot).
> 
> Why do you need to reboot just to change the MAC?

Yeah, I would think bringing the interfaces down and back up would
suffice (ifdown -a; ifup -a).

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