FYI, this does not occur on my machine. Dell Optiplex GX280 with BroadCom NetXTreme NIC. Rafiq -----Original Message----- From: Gary Harthill [mailto:gary.harthill@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 29 October 2004 09:17 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: manually assigned mac address I used this method on some of my machines. When you ifdown with an invalid MAC address (ie not the same one as the board is given) the system hangs. Is this just localized to my machines hardware type? Mike Burger wrote: >On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, 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 ? >> >> > >There are tools to do this, for which you could google, but, other than >using this as an attempt to spoof your IP address, why would you want/need >to do this? > > I know this sort of thing can be useful for some failover mechanisms with active and hot spare servers, but you may be better off using clustering tools instead of home grown. In any case inspection of the ifup script and testing indicate that it is possible to do within the interface configurations. Include the following directive in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX configuration file, substituting the desired mac address: MACADDR=00:11:22:33:44:55 Chris -- ----------------------------------------------------------- "Spend less! Do more! Go Open Source..." -- Dirigo.net Chris Johnson, RHCE #807000448202021 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
