The " mac-address auto GigabitEthernet0/0.1 a2d2.0400.11bc a2d2.0400.11bd"
configures mac address for g0/0.1 in active and standy respectivley

Did you check in 8.2?

There are multiple ways to configure mac address and the following is the
order:


Snippet from
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/asa/asa80/configuration/guide/failover.html

There are multiple ways to configure virtual MAC addresses on the security
appliance. When more than one method has been used to configure virtual MAC
addresses, the security appliance uses the following order of preference to
determine which virtual MAC address is assigned to an interface:

*1. *The *mac-address* command (in interface configuration mode) address.

*2. *The *failover mac address* command address.

*3. *The *mac-address auto* command generate address.

*4. *The automatically generated failover MAC address.


With regards

Kings


On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Vybhav Ramachandran <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I think that the "mac-address auto" command is the only command available
> in the system context , which can be used to assign mac-addresses to the
> interfaces belonging to various contexts.
>
> The other way to change the mac-address of the context interfaces is to
> switch contexts and perform the interface level "mac-address" command.
>
> The only way to configure mac-addresses in single context mode is using the
> "mac-address" and the "failover mac-address" commands?
>
> I'd love to hear others thoughts on these.
>
> Cheers,
> TacACK
>
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