You need to restart the vnet daemon to have it take the change.
Currently the easist way to do this is to run (as root) the Win4Lin
system start script, /etc/rc.d/init.d/Win4Lin
Of course rebooting is also an option for those that don't want to
type too much. :)
=David
Bill Gurley wrote:
>
> Bob Jones wrote:
> >
> > to manually set the vnet/merge MAC address, edit the /etc/default/merge
> > file and change the MERGE_VNET_MACRANGE_START and _END lines from 'auto'
> > to the MAC address you wish to use (use the first 4 pairs from your ethX
> > in linux and just change the last 2 pair of numbers). example - linux
> > MAC = 00:A0:CC:E8:XX:YY
> > MERGE_VNET_MACRANGE_START=00:A0:CC:E8:XX:00
> > MERGE_VNET_MACRANGE_END=00:A0:CC:E8:XX:02
> >
> > save the merge file, and open win4lin .. if you run winipcfg you should
> > now see a MAC address that falls withing the macrange settings - this
> > should now be different mac address from your linux mac address which is
> > all that matters. you can also (I think) use the same mac address for
> > both the start and end addresses in the merge file to match the address
> > that your license is for (providing that its a different address from
> > the linux ethernet mac address).
>
>
> Has anybody actually gotten this to work?? I have tried and
> tried. I found a support document on the Netraverse
> knowledge base that describes this a little bit differently
> from Bob's description above. It is document Reference #
> 010606-000083. I have tried it both ways, and even
> completely removed win4lin, reinstalled, re-installed
> Windows 98se, and edited the /etc/default/merge file.
> Everytime I run winipcfg I get the same MAC address. no
> change.
>
> -Bill-
>
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