Looks like the mail demon ate the first one... Some additional notes: I had the same bad results trying to set the mac on a tulip based NIC with kernel 2.2.17. Using the tulip-diag tool, I was able to see that the original MAC was still reported by the NIC, but ifconfig showed the one I had tried to set. Hopefully I'm missing some simple detail/command?? Ben Greear wrote: > > I've been trying to change the MAC address of my RTL8139 NIC. > > I don't want the change to last through a reboot, and it does > not seem to. > > However, the NIC will not accept packets destined for it's new > MAC unless I put it into promiscious mode. Packets sent from it > have the new MAC in it, however. > > Here are the commands I'm using to change the MAC > > /sbin/ip link set eth1 down > /sbin/ip link set eth1 address 00:11:22:33:44:55 > /sbin/ip link set eth1 up > > (IP routing information is then set back up...) > > tcpdump shows eth1 to have the new MAC, and packets sent > from it have the new MAC in it. > > Is there something else I need to do to get the NIC to > start thinking it's the new MAC? > > I'm using kernel 2.4.prerelease. > > Thanks, > Ben -- Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) http://www.candelatech.com Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL) http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
