On Mar 15, 2005, at 12:20 AM, Sean Kamath wrote:
[In a message on Wed, 02 Mar 2005 05:34:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:]In my case, I'm running a SS20 with le* interfaces, which means that all interfaces use the same ethernet address.
I'm curious, doesn't setting local-mac-address? to true doesn't work with LE's? Only HME's and newer? Actually, I guess only quad HME's and newer, according to:
http://www.barbary.com/cookbooks/macaddress.html
Right. One would think it, in theory, possible. Obviously, the card is getting its ethernet address from the OF PROM. I don't know how programmable OF is... I would think some forth code might be able to change the bahavior to hand out incremental ethernet addresses as they are requested, but if it were possible, someone would probably already have done it. A replacement boot PROM might do it, but I don't know one exists that would do such a thing. The later NIC's simply had their own ethernet addresses built-in.
So, I guess that leaves the question, can one change the ethernet address of a NIC with ifconfig on OpenBSD? My 3.5 box doesn't seem to allow it. . .
Before securelevel is changed, you can tell the kernel that an interface has a different ethernet address than it really has, but this particular hardware overwrites outgoing frames. I presume this could cause all sorts of trouble.
JMF
