Re: changing MAC address

[oster () UX1 CSO UIUC EDU (charles james oster)]

read the man page.

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether de:ad:be:ef:69:69
ifconfig eth0 up

On sparcs, however, you don't need to bring the interface down.  (At least
on my ultra 1)

-CJO-

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Arturo Busleiman wrote:

> This is question regarding an old thread.
>
> > as an example, under linux, as root:
> >
> >   ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11
> >
> > changes the mac address of eth0 to 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11, iirc.
>
>         [root@machine /root]# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11
>         SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy
>
> why does this happen? under which circumstances can I use ifconfig for
> that purpose?
>
>
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