Re: oBSD 3.9-Beta: -> changing mac to 11:22:33:44:55:66 ?
This is a discussion on Re: oBSD 3.9-Beta: -> changing mac to 11:22:33:44:55:66 ? within the lucky.openbsd.misc forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:42:09PM +0100, sebastian.rother@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hello everybody, > > During reading an mail ...
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 Re: oBSD 3.9-Beta: -> changing mac to 11:22:33:44:55:66 ? On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 06:42:09PM +0100, sebastian.rother@jpberlin.de wrote: > Hello everybody, > > During reading an mail on a Securityfocus-Mailinglist I noticed that it`s > not possible to change the lladdr-value of &any NIC to 11:22:33:44:55:66. > > With ath: > kerberos $ ifconfig ath0 lladdr 1a:2a:3a:23:e3:0f > kerberos $ ifconfig ath0 lladdr 11:22:33:44:55:66 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFLLADDR: Invalid argument > > With xl: > *cut* > kerberos $ ifconfig xl0 lladdr 11:22:33:44:55:66 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFLLADDR: Invalid argument > > With bge: > kerberos $ ifconfig bge1 lladdr 11:22:33:44:55:66 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFLLADDR: Invalid argument > > I didn`t found anything with google why the mac-adress 11:22:33:44:55:66 > should be invalid so I would thank everybody who knows the reason of this > behavior. > > Kind regards, > Sebastian > > p.s. > A noticed: other MACs work well 11:22:33:44:55:66 is a multicast MAC address and therefor not allowed as interface address. -- :wq Claudio      |
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