From: Jo-Philipp Wich <jow@openwrt.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:47:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Prevent "SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy" when trying to change mac address
X-Git-Url: http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt%2Fsvn-archive%2Farchive.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fa5416c0efa40fc13218bab27a0e9a769259221

Prevent "SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy" when trying to change mac address


SVN-Revision: 13258
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diff --git a/package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh b/package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh
index 9e7cff99a3..9b4320507d 100755
--- a/package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh
+++ b/package/base-files/files/lib/network/config.sh
@@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ setup_interface() {
 	config_get mtu "$config" mtu
 	config_get macaddr "$config" macaddr
 	grep "$iface:" /proc/net/dev > /dev/null && \
+		$DEBUG ifconfig "$iface" down && \
 		$DEBUG ifconfig "$iface" ${macaddr:+hw ether "$macaddr"} ${mtu:+mtu $mtu} up
 	set_interface_ifname "$config" "$iface"