I'm trying to register my router's mac address with the campus network so that I don't have to use it in bridge mode... and so I'm trying to spoof the mac address of the router
Problem is that after I bring the netcard down 'ifconfig eth0 down' , then try and bring it back up 'ifconfig eth0 up' it won't connect to the internet 'lynx' won't find anything until I reboot the system -and then the original mac address loads and I'm back at square 1 - even when I don't change the mac address I can't bring the card down then back up successfully without restarting am I missing a command? I'm very new to linux and running slack 10.0

Thanks for any help

The sequence for changing the ethernet device's apparent MAC address is:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
ifconfig eth0 111.222.333.444 broadcast 555.666.777.888 netmask 999.000.111.222

Make sure to change the MAC and network numbers accordingly.

If eth0 is configured by DHCP, you'd replace the last line in the above triplet of commands with:

dhcpcd -t 10 -d eth0

One way to make this persist across reboots is to add:

if [ "$1" = 0 ]
then
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
fi

at line 72 in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, just before the line reading:
if [ "${USE_DHCP[$1]}" = "yes" ]; then # use DHCP to bring interface up

Make a backup copy of /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 before you start in case it gets screwed up.

This isn't the prettiest way to do it, but it should work. The proper way is to make it so /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 picks up the desired apparent MAC address from /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, but that's a bit more work.

I haven't really tested any of this, but it should get you going.

Lyle