Hi there!

I have the following problem (sorry if my english is sometimes not very proper): My internet provider identifies its user by the mac adress. The thing is i often switch computers so i need to change (or better spoof) my mac adress. I am using the following commands:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
ifconfig eth0 up

That actually works fine. But in order to keep it after restart i have to write the commands in a startup script. But i just cant find out which i should use. /etc/init.d/boot.local changes the mac adress but the internet doesnt work anymore. Same with the 'network' script.

Can anybody help me on that problem please? I am using SUSE 10.0 OSS

Thanks

can nobody help me on that?

Instead of hijacking a particular script, why don't you just have this in a script of its own? That way if you have a system upgrade, your changes won't get wiped out by a new script.

the problem here is i dont know when this script should start? do you know what i mean? it must be before the ip service activates otherwise internet wont work. Do you have an idea?

Well, you could just modify the script so it doesn't matter when it runs. So maybe something like this:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
ifup eth0


If I remember correctly, ifup will request an IP address.

hm here might be the problem! i tried it out in the console and after entering ifup eth0 i got an error: No configuration found. Does this mean anything to you? Obviously the problem has to do with the ip adress. I also tried 'killall dhcpcd' and restart with 'dhcpcd eth0'. When i enter 'killall dhcpcd' i got the message: no configuration file found. Will shut down dhcp anyways!

is it possible that i have to change the name of my /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-00:c2:4f:2e:df:bc so that the last part of the file contains the new spoofed mac adress?

I suppose that is possible. To be honest, I'm not real sure where Suse grabs its config info. You could try it and see if that works.