Re: Fedora 16 MAC Address
John Hearns <[email protected]>
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On 19/04/2012, James Courtier-Dutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Note: Only change the MAC address of an interface when the interface is > down. > Otherwise the network will think there are duplicate IP addresses. > I don't actually know if the "ip link set address ascii-mac-address > dev (device)" does an arp poison or not. I probably should. Oh do come on. Live dangerously. Its more fun that way. ps. I'm only half joking. I once had to install a very expensive piece of video special effects kit which could only be networked by setting a permanent arp entry on the SGI workstation which wanted to talk to it (ie you had to know the MAC address adn do an arp -s ) -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug