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-rw-r--r--NEWS2
-rw-r--r--lib/network/connection.pm8
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e044fdd..90a5059 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+- improve MAC adress help
+
1.19.2:
- re-add broadcom-wl reference
diff --git a/lib/network/connection.pm b/lib/network/connection.pm
index c92eb87..d1ad8f1 100644
--- a/lib/network/connection.pm
+++ b/lib/network/connection.pm
@@ -253,11 +253,11 @@ sub get_control_settings {
{ label => N("Metric"), val => \$self->{control}{metric}, advanced => 1 },
{ label => N("MTU"), val => \$self->{control}{mtu}, advanced => 1,
help => N("Maximum size of network message (MTU). If unsure, left blank.") },
- { label => N("MACADDR"), val => \$self->{control}{macaddr}, advanced => 1,
+ { label => N("Fake make address (MACADDR)"), val => \$self->{control}{macaddr}, advanced => 1,
help => N("Use a fake MAC address. If unset, uses HWADDR or default.") },
- { label => N("HWADDR"), val => \$self->{control}{hwaddr}, advanced => 1,
- help => N("Set the MAC address. If unset, uses default.") },
- { label => N("ETHTOOL_OPTS"), val => \$self->{control}{ethtool_opts}, advanced => 1,
+ { label => N("MAC address (HWADDR)"), val => \$self->{control}{hwaddr}, advanced => 1,
+ help => N("Make sure to bind the interface to the network card with that MAC address. If unset, uses default.") },
+ { label => N("Ethtool options"), val => \$self->{control}{ethtool_opts}, advanced => 1,
help => N("Use ethtool to pass options to the NIC. eg. \"autoneg off wol g\"") },
];
}