Change MAC address of LAN card in rc.conf. How?

Volodymyr Kostyrko arcade at ints.net
Sun Feb 27 18:42:36 GMT 2005


Rob wrote:
> I'm running 5.3 STABLE.
> 
> I need to change the MAC address of my PC.
> 
> I know it can be done like this:
> 
>    ifconfig rl0 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
> 
> So I guessed I could make life a little easier by
> adding this in my /etc/rc.conf file as:
> 
> ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.123.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"
> 
> However, this does not seem to work. No IP address
> is assigned to the LAN card after bootup.
> Apparently something is wrong here.
> Any idea how I can do this at bootup?

   ifconfig_rl0_alias0="ether 11:22:33:44:55:66"

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