[ale] Hardware Alias

[Stephen J. Pellicer]

There are completely legitimate uses of setting a particular MAC address for
a NIC or accepting arbitrary MAC addresses in a NIC. VRRP for high
availability uses a form of virtual MAC to do its job. Using static MAC
addresses is useful for the hardcore security heads who don't pass arp on a
segment and hardcode their arp tables on the devices.

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