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

[Bernd Felsche]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 02:58:45PM +0800, Matt Kemner wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, quoth Ryan:
> 
> > This is all new to me btw, I know how to do it but have never bothered
> > to play with it :)
> >
> > ip link set eth0 address aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa
> >
> > 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?
> 
> It works fine.  You just need to re-set it every boot.
> 
> The mac address of this machine I'm on now (its name is "live")
> has been DE:AD:DE:AD:DE:AD for several years now :)

Come on... What's wrong with the traditional DE:AD:BE:EF:DE:AD ??

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