Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

[Rob]

Hi,

I'm running 5.3 STABLE.

I need to change the MAC address of my PC.

I know it can be done like this:

ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66

So I guessed I could make life a little easier by
adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:

ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"

However, this does not seem to work. No IP address
is assigned to the LAN card after bootup.
Apparently something is wrong here.
Any idea how I can do this at bootup?

Thanks,
Rob.

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[J65nko BSD]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:54:49 -0800 (PST), Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running 5.3 STABLE.
>
> I need to change the MAC address of my PC.
>
> I know it can be done like this:
>
> ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
>
> So I guessed I could make life a little easier by
> adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:
>
> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"
>
> However, this does not seem to work. No IP address
> is assigned to the LAN card after bootup.
> Apparently something is wrong here.
> Any idea how I can do this at bootup?
>

echo 'ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66' >/etc/start_if.rl0

=Adriaan=

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Rob wrote:

> I'm running 5.3 STABLE.
>
> I need to change the MAC address of my PC.
>
> I know it can be done like this:
>
> ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
>
> So I guessed I could make life a little easier by
> adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:
>
> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"
>
> However, this does not seem to work. No IP address
> is assigned to the LAN card after bootup.
> Apparently something is wrong here.
> Any idea how I can do this at bootup?

ifconfig_rl0_alias0="ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"

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