Hi,
According to: http://www.annodex.net/cgi-bin/man/man2html?interfaces
it is possible to set a custom mac address when using dhcp.
The attached patch allows this for both 'ifconfig' and 'ip'.
Wade
Index: busybox/networking/ifupdown.c
===================================================================
--- busybox/networking/ifupdown.c (revision 23068)
+++ busybox/networking/ifupdown.c (working copy)
@@ -489,8 +489,12 @@
unsigned i;
#if ENABLE_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
/* ip doesn't up iface when it configures it (unlike ifconfig) */
- if (!execute("ip link set %iface% up", ifd, exec))
+ if (!execute("ip link set[[ address %hwaddress%]] %iface% up", ifd, exec))
return 0;
+#else
+ /* also call ifconfig so we can set the hw addr even when using dhcp */
+ if (!execute("ifconfig %iface%[[ hw %hwaddress%]] up", ifd, exec))
+ return 0;
#endif
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ext_dhcp_clients); i++) {
if (exists_execable(ext_dhcp_clients[i].name))
@@ -504,8 +508,12 @@
{
#if ENABLE_FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_IP
/* ip doesn't up iface when it configures it (unlike ifconfig) */
- if (!execute("ip link set %iface% up", ifd, exec))
+ if (!execute("ip link set[[ address %hwaddress%]] %iface% up", ifd, exec))
return 0;
+#else
+ /* also call ifconfig so we can set the hw addr even when using dhcp */
+ if (!execute("ifconfig %iface%[[ hw %hwaddress%]] up", ifd, exec))
+ return 0;
#endif
return execute("udhcpc -R -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid "
"-i %iface%[[ -H %hostname%]][[ -c %clientid%]][[ -s %script%]][[ %udhcpc_opts%]]",
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