[ale] Hardware Alias

[Geoffrey]

scottb at pixel-group.com wrote:
> 
> In several different distributions it is possible to alias a MAC address for
> a NIC if I had a distribution that didn't have this feature on it how would
> I go about making this possible (i.e.) files to edit packages to install and
> such :NOTE I need it to work in console mode

I'm not sure what you mean by alias, but there is/are a/some tools that
will permit you to change/set the MAC address for your card.

Check out:

http://www.scyld.com/diag/

By the way, here's the actual comments regarding this functionality:

-H 00:11:22:33:44:55 
     Set the hardware MAC station address to the specified value. This
should never be done. 

:)

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