Re: Query regarding changing (spoofing) MAC address in RHEL 6

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn mork no>]

Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit gmail com> writes:

> We are trying to change the MAC-address on a RHEL6 machine, and have tried
> the various RHEL6-specific steps (available on the internet) to do the same.
> The end result is that we are able to change the MAC address, but
> thereafter, all incoming and outgoing network packets are dropped.
>
> If we revert the MAC address to the "original" one, all incoming/outcoming
> packets navigate fine.

This sounds like it could be a driver bug.  Which driver?

> Keeping aside any moral constraints :P, is it possible at all to "spoof" a
> MAC address on RHEL6?

Changing the MAC address should be possible on Ethernet.  Or you can't
run DECnet ;-)

But you didn't even tell us if this was an ethernet interface....


Bjørn