Reading burned-in NIC MAC address from the user space.

[Warner Losh]

On Mar 6, 2014, at 7:13 AM, clutton <clutton at zoho.com> wrote:

> Hi lists.
> 
> I'm porting a GNU macchanger to the FreeBSD. Everything has almost done,
> except restoring the mac to the original one.
> 
> The Linux users can exploit ioctl with SIOCETHTOOL pointing to a proper
> ifreq(ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR), I have no idea how to do this using FreeBSD,
> is it even possible?

I’d check the source for ifconfig.

	ifconfig ep0 link 1:2:3:4:5:6

does the trick…

Warner