Re: Changing MAC addresses of Quadruple port Ethernet cards

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Ramesh Kumar wrote:

> Could someone please help me to identify if there are any quadruple-por=
t
> Ethernet cards (Tulip or non-Tulip chip based) out there which enable
> the individual port=92s MAC address to be changed to the user=92s desir=
e?
> The card is required to run on Linux 2.4.-4.

Yes.  Not all quad port Tulip cards share a single configuration
EEPROM.

> I am developing an interface to emulate a control system controller
> which communicates using only Ethernet frames (embedded with proprietar=
y
> messaging protocol). The controllers -and the computers to which they
> talk to- all have very specific and unique MAC addresses and any other
> address will not do. The desired interface is to run on a Linux PC and
> need to emulate 8 controllers each with a specific MAC address.

Why not just use 'ifconfig' to set the station address on each boot?

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