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Subject: Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:16:30 +0100
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"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com> writes:

> Actually, it doesn't make any difference. Changing the IEEE station
> (physical) address is not an allowed procedure even though hooks are
> available in many drivers to do this.

Of course it is.  It's even required to support some obsolete
networking protocols.  You could start with
Documentation/networking/decnet.txt if you don't want to STFW


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