Re: Support for changing the MAC address on an ethernet interface

Bernd Petrovitsch <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 01:39 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[ bull shit deleted - is there a cacel feature for mailing lists? ]

OK, the former does not really work:
----  snip  ----
public_address() {
        addcode up 4 3 "ip link set $if address $1"
        iproute2_init_if
}
----  snip  ----
One has to lower the precedence level since the layer2 address
must be set before the interface is set up.

	Bernd
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