[SunRescue] OpenBSD and MAC address?

[Chris Terwilliger]

Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Katz [mailto:jon at jonworld.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 7:31 AM
> > To: 'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> > Subject: RE: [SunRescue] OpenBSD and MAC address?
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> >
> > :ok, but I need to put both cards on the same ethernet
> > segment, thus they
> > :must have different MAC addresses right?  I'm using an SS2
> > with the onboard
> > :and an SBUS LANCE.  I'm trying to do some testing with this
> > machine before
> > :it replaces an old 486 as my firewall.  Thanks,


You can change the MAC to anything you like...  I do this in an rc.ether
script that runs every time my IPX firewall boots.  eth0 gets the MAC
address of the motherboard automatically.  This is Redhat Linux, but
others are similar:

/sbin/ifconfig eth1 hw ether 00:40:05:42:e4:c6


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