Messages in this thread | | | From | Bernd Eckenfels <> | Subject | Re: ethtool documentation | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:44:37 +0200 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020807070841.28061A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> you wrote: > That capability is not permanent. If you let users write to the > SEEPROM, permanently changing the IEEE Station Address, you have > let users permanently break their network boards. I do protest > when this capability is in the kernel.
It does not break it permanently. You just need to write a sane address and it will work again.
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