gb spam wrote:
> On 2/17/06, Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Hi everybody.
>> Sorry for my poor English but I have a trouble with ethernet interface. I
>>have a new LAN-card on my machine but MAC-addresss of old card is
>>registered so I have to fake MAC address of the new to be able to use LAN. I
>>do it with command:
>> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
>> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
>>
>> and MAC is faked, but after that card seem to not work. no packages are
>>send and received. When I restart computer Lan-card work again but with his
>>own MAC so is not registered.
>>
>> Please help me out of the problem.
>> Thank you.
>
> Hieu,
>
> You need to set the faked MAC address in the network device config.
> For example, add
>
> MACADDR=00:01:02:03:04:05
>
> To
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> Don't remove the HWADDR line. Then do a "service network restart" or reboot.
>
I think you do need to remove the HWADDR line.
MACADDR=
Set the hardware address for this device to this.
Use of this in conjunction with HWADDR= may cause
unintended behavior.
Mikkel
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