[ale] Hardware Alias

[Jason Lynn]

This is VERY much possible with ifconfig.  I have done this several times 
with several NICs at home to switch my cable modem service between boxes.  
You don't have to reboot either... just ifdown, ifconfig, ifup.
jason
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>
>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
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> > 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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