Re: Canonical way to change hardware addr on DHCP interface?
I had the same problem, I gave up after finding many dhcp clients whiped
out this address change. Letme know what you find, also sone clients
support being told the hw address but this didn't work for my
ISP(attbi.com comcast).
--- Ralph Aichinger <ralph@mail.pangea.at> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I want to configure an ethernet interface by DHCP, but I have
> to fake its hardware address. No problem if I do it manually
> (just "ifconfig eth3 hw ether 01:23:45:67:89:01" works fine),
> it is documented for /etc/network/interfaces for static interfaces
> as "hwaddress ether bl:ah:wh:at:ev:er" and for bootp interfaces
> too (strangely enough it is called "hwaddr" there).
>
> Is there an *right*, clean way to get this done with dhcp in
> /etc/network/interfaces, or do I have to hack something up badly?
> (and create a mess I can't remember a year from now ; )
>
> TIA
> /ralph
>
>
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