Re: Mac address

[K-Egg@gmx.de]

> [a disclaimer which is voided by sending mail to a public mailinglist, and
> two lines of text in RTF crap]

i could not find better words for that!!

> The solution would be to change the mac address on one of the interfaces
> which cause the duplicates.
i agree

> How this can be done usually is vendor specific.
is that really true ?

what about:
#>/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
#>/sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether DE:AD:BE:AF:00:00

hw is for change hardwareaddress,
ether if for ethernet, 
DE:AD:... is the new mac address

but this is not a permanent change, the old mac is back on reboot :-)

> However, each network interface should have a unique mac address by
> default.
no comment

regards 
egg

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