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Re: Mac addresses.

From: Peter Hessler (phesslertheapt.org)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 20:53:59 CST


This feature has recently entered the tree. lladdr in ifconfig(8).

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 17:38:27 -0800 (PST)
Ai <bsdusr2003yahoo.com> wrote:

:I submitted a kernel code some time ago that "enables setting
:arbitrary MAC address in OpenBSD via ifconfig and hostname.*" I
:think it is relatively clean. The code and notes are still
:availiable at
:http://homepage.mac.com/quension/setmac.patch
:
:At this point it only supports NIC cards in these modules: dc, fxp,
:and xl. Some one has suggested that it can be done for all NIC cards
:without touching the individual modules. Nevertheless, if you look
:at the change to dc.c, fxp.c, and xl.c, you will find that the
:changes are very similar and can be added to other modules easily.

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