ifconfig seems to not accept inet and ether parameters on one line

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Angelin Lalev wrote:
> Hi everyone, 
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. and I'm trying in short to change the MAC address of my network interface at boot.
> So I wrote something like this in my rc.conf file:
> 
> ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22"
> 
> at next boot the interface was not configured at all, so I tried it manually: 
> 
> ifconfig xl0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ether 00:00:11:11:22:22

'ether' is rather another address family for ifconfig. Try:

ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00"
ifconfig_xl0_alias0="ether 00:00:11:11:22:22"

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