I was under the impression that you could NOT set all 6 sets, only the first
4.
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:00 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Hostid for vnet?
>
>
> Justin L Gaither wrote:
>
> >Do you know what the first choice of w4l is or how to determine MAC
> >address from HOSTID?
> >
> >justin
> >
> you can use 'ifconfig <interface (eth0)>' to get the MAC address for
> your real NIC card in linux, and start-> run -> winipcfg in
> windows to
> get the MAC address for the Merge NIC in windows.
>
> 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).
>
>
>
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