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I want to change MAC address in Linux
Name: Alex Date: March 6, 2002 at 14:49:11 Pacific
Comment:
I want to change MAC address using RedHat 7.2, in Win XP this thing is posible in the "Advanced" seting of My Network Places. Regards, Alex.
Name: danny Date: March 7, 2002 at 09:12:17 Pacific
Reply:
It is not possible to do that. MAC address is hard coded on your NIC. There is absolutly no reason to that anyway!!
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Response Number 2
Name: D3viL Date: March 8, 2002 at 05:23:11 Pacific
Reply:
sure its possible to change your mac address under linux, and it has some reasons which are to trick some smart switches ;)
it does not change hardware address, it just change data in structure of kernel driver for your card. Next boot on your computer will read real MAC form your hardware.
here's the link for ya : http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~azdaja/changemac.html
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