Change MAC Address

Forum thread started by AQuatro on Wed, 2006-03-01 08:08

How to change our MAC Address of network LAN card in Haiku.
in windows we can do it in registry. How to do it in Haiku / BeOS ?
It is possible ?
It will be possible in future ?

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Re: Change MAC Address

> How to change our MAC Address of network LAN card in Haiku.
> in windows we can do it in registry. How to do it in Haiku / BeOS ?
> It is possible ?

Currently, no. The very minimal ethernet drivers interface (ether_driver.h) don't provide a standard way to set MAC address, only query it.

> It will be possible in future ?

Yes, as more and more hardware allow or even require to set their MAC address. Wifi cards comes to mind.