Re: Mac addresses.

["Eichert, Diana" <deicher_(_at_)_sandia_(_dot_)_gov>]

David

No one has said they won't ( don't you love double negatives?) support
the ability to change the MAC address.  However the mechanism the
other BSD's uses can not be universally used across all NICs, so it's
not going to be added to OpenBSD.  So come to the table with code that
CLEANly adds this functionality and I'm sure there would be interest.

I would but I'm a slug and depend on my student interns to do any real
work nowadays.

diana

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tech_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org on behalf of Henning Brauer
Sent: Mon 3/21/2005 8:17 PM
To: tech_(_at_)_openbsd_(_dot_)_org
Subject: Re: Mac addresses.

* David Bryan <videoman_(_at_)_drstrangelove_(_dot_)_net> [2005-03-22 04:10]:
> So here are a couple of points that I want to bring up here about why
> OpenBSD should allow one to change the MAC address on the physical
> interfaces...

again, it comes down to somebody providing a reasonable implementation
(using ifconfig)