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Old 09-05-2006
Corona688 Corona688 is offline
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Originally Posted by reborg
In Solaris the mac address can be changed with the ifconfig command, and may well be on some other OSes.
Would you expect this work on x86 solaris, and/or with non-Sun network cards? I still think my answer fits for all but the weirdest of hardware and software, since the MAC is handled practially at the hardware level.