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

From: J65nko BSD (j65nko_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05

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    Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:59:24 +0100
    To: Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
    
    

    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

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