Re: Fedora 16 MAC Address
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On 18 Apr 2012, Chris Miles told this: > This seems to be the core of the issue, all the addresses reported have > the top bit set, they are 'locally administered' and overwrite the > card's built in MAC. Uh, the locally administered bit is not the top bit. The locally administered bit is the next-from-bottom bit of the top octet. See, e.g. include/linux/etherdevice.h:random_ether_addr() in a recent Linux kernel tree. And (unless I've typoed) not all these addresses have that bit set. > ifconfig allow this locally-administered address to be configured, man ifconfig is by now very obsolete and frequently misleading (though not in this case). You want 'ip link set address'. > e.g. > ifconfig eth0 hw ether ascii-mac-address ip link set address ascii-mac-address dev (device) -- NULL && (void) -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug