Re: changing MAC address

[koge () NCSA ES (Antonio Fernandes Vazquez)]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Arturo Busleiman wrote:

> This is question regarding an old thread.
>
> > as an example, under linux, as root:
> >
> >   ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11
> >
> > changes the mac address of eth0 to 00:aa:23:ce:3a:11, iirc.
>
>         [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?
I'm not totally sure that this purpose with ifconfig will works in every
ethernet card, i think that in major this info is written into an ROM.
I try to set down the interface and after change it, but not possible in
my case, you can read more about this in hacking () argo es. ;)

Salut!

        Antonio Fernandes.