On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Paul D. Robertson wrote: > > Nope, changing the ether address using ifconfig is allowed on solaris > > too. I used this feature to whack the interfaces on a multihomed sun > > connected to a switch. > > Yep- I just found it out after digging around a bit after I sent this, I'm > not sure why everyone kept sending me to the PROM thing before- it didn't > seem to make sense. Maybe the whole "If it's a QFE the MAC is on the > card, otherwise it's in the PROM" thing was just to see how long I'd run > around looking for other solutions ;)
Hy, Be carefull when changing the mac address in eeprom as (at least on old machines) the hostid consists at least partly of the primary mac address on the system board. Regards, Achim Dreyer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A. Dreyer, UNIX System Administrator and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
