[plug] does anyone know how to set a mac address on a dummy net interface?

[Bill Kenworthy]

Worked a treat, thanks

BillK



On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:48, Ryan wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:09, Matt Kemner wrote:
> > On 5 Sep 2003, quoth Bill Kenworthy:
> > 
> > > does anyone know how to set a mac address on a dummy net interface?
> > 
> > yeah, ifconfig it down first.
> > You can't change the mac address on a live interface.
> 
> This is all new to me btw, I know how to do it but have never bothered
> to play with it :)
> 
> I just tried it on a client here using what i did in my last email on
> eth0.
> 
> ip link set eth0 address aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa
> 
> The arp table on one of the servers I probed recorded this:
> 
> 10.2.0.22     ether    AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA  C     eth0
> 
> Looks sufficiently spoofed to me.  Is the arp table showing what I want
> to see so I feel happy it worked and is storing the real one elsewhere,
> or is the server truly being dealt the fake MAC address from my client?
> 
> Ryan