Baffled by a Cable Modem
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Jun 20 15:59:14 UTC 2009
Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:33:19 -0500,
> "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> Add a line like the following to the ifcfg-eth? file (and you may need to
>>> be running the network service as I don't know if network manager uses
>>> that info):
>>>
>>> MACADDR=DE:C1:A5:51:F1:ED
>>>
>>> Except you want to use the mac address of the windows box.
>>>
>>> You'll want the windows box off the network when you try this.
>>>
>> You will also want to comment out the HWADDR=<something> line, or
>> you may get strange results.
>
> It works fine for me. I like to leave that in as I have some machines with
> multiple nics and that makes sure that they consistantly get associated
> with the same interface.
>
> What problems have you seen?
>
From sysconfig.txt:
MACADDR=
Set the hardware address for this device to this.
Use of this in conjunction with HWADDR= may cause
unintended behavior.
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
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