On Wednesday, 07/16/2003 at 02:52 AST, "Button, Chris"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had a request from an application group to have the mac address set to

> something other than all zeroes for a hipersocket.  I have googled
around and
> found this for rc.config:
> IFCHMAC_1="hw ether 11:11:11:11:11:11"
>
> I ran SuSEconfig but it appears to have ignored the setting.
> Any ideas?

HiperSockets have no MAC addresses.  They are layer 3 IP transport
devices.  MAC is layer 2.  You better find out why the app group is asking
for specific MACs.

Alan Altmark
Sr. Software Engineer
IBM z/VM Development

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