On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:11:35AM +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote: > Hi all, > I'd like some clarification on the support or non-support of the lladdr > option in ipconfig. I'm getting conflicting evidence from various > sources: on-line man page (+), man page of my brand new 3.7 install (-), > various forums (mix of + and -). It looks as if the ipconfig that comes > with 3.7 doesn't understand lladdr. > > Is this a temporary issue? Will the option be added back in? Or does it > depend on the ethernet card driver in use (fxp in my case)? > > Cheers > Steffen.
ifconfig(8) in -current has the lladdr command and can thus change the MAC address on most Ethernet NICs. All the Ethernet drivers need testing with this command, to weed out which drivers do the right thing and which ones do not. So, if you have a need for this functionality in your environment then please try this out.
