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Aix Mac Address - How to change it ?

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Eduardo

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Jul 28, 2004, 4:59:08 PM7/28/04
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Hi,

I have a IBM RS390 with AIX 4.1 and Token Ring communication.
I need to change the Mac Address in this machine. How can I do this ?
Please, somebody can help me ??

Just for information, I use the command: lscfg -vl ent0, and the result was:

DEVICE LOCATION DESCRIPTION

ent0 00-00-0E Integrated Ethernet Adapter

Displayable Message.........STANDARD ETHERNET
Network Address.............10005AFA289D
Device Driver Level.........00
Diagnostic Level............00

Tks,

Carlos Eduardo Boccio
TS&O Consultoria - Brazil
e-mail: cbo...@yahoo.com.br

Andreas Goldammer

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Jul 29, 2004, 12:59:44 AM7/29/04
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"Eduardo" <cbo...@yahoo.com.br> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi,

you cannot change the burned-in address of the adapter,
but you can assign an alternate address to it. Because I
prefer smitty to do things:

Call "smitty chgtok" and select your adapter.
The settings are "Enable Alternate Token Ring address"
and "Alternate Token Ring address".
Read the F1 help for these fields before changing.

Andreas


Etienne Guillaumont

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Jul 29, 2004, 1:37:48 AM7/29/04
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Do it with smitty devices, then communication devices and change the adapter
configuration. You will have to check the last line which says "apply
changes to database only" and then reboot your RS because you can't change
it while tcpip is running ( it would be possible to stop tcpip and not
reboot but it is more complicated and most of the time useless).
Regards

"Eduardo" <cbo...@yahoo.com.br> a écrit dans le message de
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Eduardo

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Jul 29, 2004, 4:16:49 PM7/29/04
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Hi,

When I check the last line "apply changes to database only" from "no"
to "yes", I will need to save this change and them reboot the RS...
right ?
Well... to reboot the RS, what kind of command I need to use ??

Sorry, for this questions, but is the first time that I do this kind
of work and I don´t have anybody to give me this information!!

Tks,

Regards

Eduardo


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Greg

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Jul 29, 2004, 9:28:26 PM7/29/04
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You don't reboot AIX for something like that!
Just rmdev and mkdev the entx Ethernet adapter
device. To do that you must turn off the enx
interface with ifconfig.

The quickest way to reset TCP/IP interfaces
after that and put back your routes is
/etc/methods/cfgif
/etc/methods/cfginet

Greg.

Etienne Guillaumont

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Jul 30, 2004, 1:47:09 AM7/30/04
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hi,

shutdown -Fr will reboot your computer

regards

Etienne

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