MAC address & rc.conf

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 12:49:37PM -0400, Adam Gregoire wrote:
> You need to create a file called start_if.[interface name] and set the
> mac there.
> 
> Like this:
> 
> ebola$ cat /etc/start_if.de0
> #!/bin/sh
> ifconfig de0 ether c0ffeec0ffee
> ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP

This is pretty much what you'll need to do in 4 and 5.  In 6 you can
just put a line like this in /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_de0="ether c0ffeec0ffee media 10baseT/UTP DHCP"

-- Brooks

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