Thanks Bjorn for the reply.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> wrote: > Ajay Garg <[email protected]> writes: > > > We are trying to change the MAC-address on a RHEL6 machine, and have > tried > > the various RHEL6-specific steps (available on the internet) to do the > same. > > The end result is that we are able to change the MAC address, but > > thereafter, all incoming and outgoing network packets are dropped. > > > > If we revert the MAC address to the "original" one, all > incoming/outcoming > > packets navigate fine. > > This sounds like it could be a driver bug. Which driver? > Doing a grep in dmesg, shows as :: [ajay@localhost]$ dmesg | grep 'Ethernet driver' r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded Also, I assume you meant that the packets being dropped is the bug, and not the "packets being allowed fine after reverting MAC address" :-P > > > Keeping aside any moral constraints :P, is it possible at all to "spoof" > a > > MAC address on RHEL6? > > Changing the MAC address should be possible on Ethernet. Or you can't > run DECnet ;-) > > But you didn't even tell us if this was an ethernet interface.... > Ahh, sorry for being unclear before --- it is a vanilla ethernet "eth0" interface. > > > Bjørn > > Thanks again for the reply; I hope the information provided helps in solving the issue :) -- Regards, Ajay
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