Mark White wrote
> Can somebody enlighten me: is it possible to change the
> ethernet [MAC, ie xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx] address of a network
> interface?
> 
> It looks [from the ifconfig(8) manpage] like setting the
> ethernet address  should be possible in a similar way to
> setting IP address, but I can't seem to figure out the
> syntax.  [On linux boxen, I've previously done this with the
> "hw" option to ifconfig]

AFAIK, you can't... MAC addresses are uniques numbers assigned to NICs at
time of production by the manufacturer. 

I can't see the point of wanting to change this, but you must have
your reasons... perhaps you can enlighten me on this one...

cheerio Berndt
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