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List:       linuxap-dev
Subject:    [LinuxAP-dev] Re: [OpenAP-dev] MAC changer on LinuxAP/OpenAP ....
From:       Keith E Smith <keith () ksmith ! com>
Date:       2003-01-12 19:20:57
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The ability to change a MAC address is determined by two things.  The 
driver, and hardware.  On a normal piece of hardware the MAC is loaded 
into it so that the firmware on the chip/card knows what to listen for.

The driver must support the ioctl, and the hardware must have this 
functionality.

Both hostAP and the realtek driver support this.

Bo Leo wrote:
> Ok but can the MAC address be changed on wlan0 too,
> the small programm can do it on both eth0 and wlan0
> ...
> 
> If this command line can do it too : forget my
> question, include this programm to flash is not
> necessarry...
> 
> 
> 
>  --- Keith E Smith <keith@ksmith.com> a écrit : >
> Again, I ask....
> 
>>If you want to change a MAC address all you have to
>>do is run ifconfig 
>>and change it.  I did mis-type the command but.
>>
>> From my source: /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan0:
>>
>>     if ifconfig wlan0 > /dev/null 2>&1
>>     then
>>         iwconfig wlan0 txpower 20
>>         iwconfig wlan0 rate 11Mb
>># Set the eth0 interface to the same mac
>>         HWADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | sed -n
>>'s/.*HWaddr\(.*\)/\1/p'`
>>         ifconfig eth0 hw ether $HWADDR
>>     fi
>>
>>This is setting the hardware address (MAC) on eth0
>>to that of the wlan0 
>>card.
>>
>>So tell us what this software is going to do that
>>makes it better.
>>
>>This reminds me, i need to remove the 'sed'...
> 
> 
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