# this script is part of networksettings2 package # purpose : set fixed MAC address for network devices that # have random addresses (like usb) # NS2MacStore=/etc/NS2 [ ! -d ${NS2MacStore} ] && mkdir ${NS2MacStore} if [ -z "$1" ] then exit 0 fi if [ -f ${NS2MacStore}/$1.mac ] then # set this mac X=`cat ${NS2MacStore}/$1.mac` if [ ! -z "$X" ] then /sbin/ifconfig $1 hw ether $X fi else # remember current mac for all times X=`/sbin/ifconfig $1 | grep HWaddr` X=${X#*HWaddr } # strip till HWaddr X=${X%% *} # remove trailing spaces if [ ! -z "$X" ] then # valid mac address echo ${X} > ${NS2MacStore}/$1.mac fi fi exit 0