From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt)
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: info@danieleparisi.me, alezost@gmail.com, 21019@debbugs.gnu.org,
bug-inetutils@gnu.org
Subject: bug#21019: [bug-inetutils] bug#21019: ifconfig doesn't allow mac change for devices
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 14:09:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ZDcjh-0006NO-DZ__30975.157072726$1436556819$gmane$org@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj33c43v.fsf@gnu.org> (ludo@gnu.org)
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>> Hello, I am trying to install guixsd with the installation image, my wireless
>> internet provider allows me for only one MAC. The command I use to change the
>> card mac on other distros and installation images is:
>>
>> ifconfig device hw ether NewMacAdress
>>
>> But with guixsd ifconfig fails telling me that the device can have only one
>> address. Interesting to notice that I can put whatever device, even non existent
>> names like "jlakjdj" and it tells the same thing, the device can only have on
>> adress. I have an Atheros card.
>
> As I answered on IRC <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2015-07-09#T695806>,
> my speculative guess is that perhaps ifconfig is patched on other
> distros to handle this problem.
I think most other distros use ‘ifconfig’ from net-tools, not from
GNU inetutils. If think this is just unimplemented.
Can someone at bug-inetutils comment?
That is correct, GNU ifconfig does not support setting the MAC
address.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-10 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-09 18:16 bug#21019: ifconfig doesn't allow mac change for devices info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me
2015-07-10 5:58 ` Alex Kost
2015-07-10 6:46 ` info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me
2015-07-10 17:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <87zj33c43v.fsf@gnu.org>
2015-07-10 18:09 ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2015-07-10 23:13 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-07-11 9:22 ` info@danieleparisi.me info@danieleparisi.me
[not found] ` <500058978.590533.1436606574412.JavaMail.open-xchange@app2.ox.privateemail.com>
2015-07-11 10:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
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