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Re: changing MAC address

From: heretix () MAGIX COM SG (Joe)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:42:04 +0800


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".

Joe

Current thread:

changing MAC address Arturo Busleiman (Mar 29)
- Re: changing MAC address Sen_Ml Sen_Ml (Mar 29)
- Re: changing MAC address Joe (Mar 29)
  - Re: changing MAC address Arturo Busleiman (Mar 30)
- Re: changing MAC address Antonio Fernandes Vazquez (Mar 30)
  - Re: changing MAC address Borbely Zoltan (Mar 30)
- Re: changing MAC address chris () STRICTLY NOSUCKAZ NET (Mar 30)
- Re: changing MAC address charles james oster (Mar 30)
- Bug in outlook 2000 Wilton (Mar 30)
  - Re: Bug in outlook 2000 Mark L. Jackson (Mar 30)
    - Re: Bug in outlook 2000 Phil Cox (Mar 30)
    - Re: Bug in outlook 2000 Mark L. Jackson (Mar 31)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: changing MAC address Paul Pot (Mar 30)

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