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tecknojunky
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:22 am Post subject: baselayout bloats

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I don't get it.

In /etc/conf.d/net.example:

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# MAC changer
# For changing MAC addresses emerge net-analyzer/macchanger

# - to set a specific MAC address
#mac_eth0="00:11:22:33:44:55"
...

Now, in my view, this leads to confusion because you absolutely have no needs of macchanger if it's only to set a specific mac address, right?

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ifconfig_eth1=( "1.2.3.4 broadcast 1.2.3.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 hw ether 00:04:E2:AA:BB:CC mtu 1496" )

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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:27 am Post subject:

Yeah you can changer your mac with ifconfig why should one emerge a program for it. Sorry but reminds me a bit of windows...

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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:11 am Post subject:

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ph03n1x wrote:

Yeah you can changer your mac with ifconfig

Eehm, and how do you do that with ifconfig ?

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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject:

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toralf wrote:

ph03n1x wrote:

Yeah you can changer your mac with ifconfig

Eehm, and how do you do that with ifconfig ?

Code:

ifconfig ethX hw ether AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

Quoting the man page:

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hw class address
Set the hardware address of this interface, if the device driver supports this operation. The keyword must be followed by the
name of the hardware class and the printable ASCII equivalent of the hardware address. Hardware classes currently supported
include ether (Ethernet), ax25 (AMPR AX.25), ARCnet and netrom (AMPR NET/ROM).

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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:23 pm Post subject:

Ah, thanks.

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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:53 am Post subject:

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That's all well and good for ifconfig, but the same command will not work when using iproute2. If you insist on not emerging macchanger,here's a way that works with both

Code:

mtu_eth1="1492"

preup() {
if [[ ${IFACE} == "eth1" ]];
interface_set_mac_address "${IFACE}" "00:04:E2:AA:BB:CC"
fi
}

Requires baselayout-1.12.0_pre6 or newer
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