as I suspected the ifconfig hw ether statement works just fine, unfortunately however when I specify a HWADDR within the config file it just errors telling me that the mac specified doesn't match the one on the card. Does anyone know how to resolve this one ? Thanks In Advance Richard On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 11:52 +0300, Andrey Andreev wrote: > Richard Worwood wrote: > > I'm trying to work out how to configure a manually assigned mac address > > onto an interface without much luck. > > > > Does anyone know how ? > > > > Hi, > > As root, do > > ifconfig eth0 down > ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > ifconfig eth0 up > > assuming that your NIC device is eth0, and substituting the xx:xx.. with > the desired MAC address. > > If that does thhe job for you, you might want to edit > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > and set it there (I think the parameter was called HWADDR, but I am away > from a fedora box) > > Greets, > > //Andro > > > -- > Andrey Andreev > University of Helsinki > Dept. of Computer Science >
