How To Change Mac Address - PalmMicro AR1688 Development Manual

C o m m u n i c a t i o n s , I n c .

10 How To Change MAC Address

The MAC address of PA1688 based device can be easily changed by Palmtool, and we
spent a lot of technical support effort to help manufacturers and end users to get rid of
the duplicated MAC problem. When we began to design AR1688 software, we tried to
avoid the problem from the beginning, the MAC address is not allowed to be changed in
most situations. But still there is request of MAC address changing request that we feel
not easy to refuse, the result is this guide.
However, this is not a simple guide, and you must be an advanced user to follow this
guide. If you do not know how to upgrade by TFTP, do not know how to enter safe-mode,
or do not know what MAC address is, you can skip the rest.
1. Make sure you have most recent AR1688 API in hand, feel free to write to
support@palmmicro.com.cn
2. Also write to support@palmmicro.com.cn
change your MAC address. Please provide information like hardware type, protocol
and language for us to send you the correct firmware.
3. Press * while power up to set your AR1688 IP phone into safe-mode.
4. Use the command line tool in API SDCC\bin, "getopt 192.168.1.200", when it finishes,
an options.txt file will pop up.
5. In options.txt, find the line like "mac_address=0x00,0x18,0x1f,0x10,0xa0,0xb8",
change whatever MAC address you like to use.
6. Save options.txt, use "setopt 192.168.1.200", the phone will reboot after change
7. Use command line to upgrade the special firmware we sent in email in step 2, usually
like "tftp -i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx put ar168x_sip_us_032000.bin". The file is 640k in size.
8. Use command line to upgrade the safe-mode firmware we sent in email in step2,
usually like "tftp -i xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx put ar168x_none_us_032000.bin", the file is 64k in
size.
After those steps, you can use and upgrade normal firmware in the future with MAC
address changed.
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for a copy if you do not have it.
saying that you need special firmware to
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