[ale] Hardware Alias

[Matt Shade]

However, after saying that, man ifconfig reminded me that certain types of
nics will allow it:

       hw class address
              Set  the hardware address of this interface, if the
              device driver supports this operation.  The keyword
              must  be followed by the name of the hardware class
              and the printable ASCII equivalent of the  hardware
              address.    Hardware  classes  currently  supported
              include ether (Ethernet), ax25 (AMPR AX.25), ARCnet
              and netrom (AMPR NET/ROM).

Rereading your original post, I'm wondering if we're even talking about the
same thing....are you wanting to create a "pseudo" nic, like a loopback
device with it's own mac address?

matt shade
www.threekay.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Shade" <mshade at threekay.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <scottb at pixel-group.com>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 12:07
Subject: Re: [ale] Hardware Alias


> I don't know how to do it, but MAC aliasing (spoofing) is a security
> risk/breach. So you probably want to look into cracking software or maybe
> changing security code. I don't think there's any distro available to
allow
> you to do what you're asking.
> Some NICs allow you to use the DOS utilities disk to change the MAC
address,
> but that's not on the fly, and requires a reboot.
>
> matt shade
> www.threekay.com
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> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 10:31
> Subject: [ale] Hardware Alias
>
>
> > 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
> >
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