Re: changing MAC address

[buanzox () USA NET (Arturo Busleiman)]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Joe wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Arturo Busleiman wrote:
>
> >         [root@machine /root]# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11
> >         SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy
> >
> > why does this happen? under which circumstances can I use ifconfig for
> > that purpose?
>
> AFAIK, that error can be safely ignored.  If you were to test whether that
> change is active or not, you'll probably find out that the MAC address for
> that NIC has indeed been "changed".
oh yes? interesting!
could you please expand yourself a bit more on the subject?

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