Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:51:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas <marc@netstor.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAC takeover Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909020748370.20029-100000@medulla.hippocampus.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909021314540.88559-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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Andrzej: How about bringing up an additional logical or physical interface and spoofing the MAC address when the target machine fails? I really don't think you want to change the actual MAC address of a card...or do you? -marc ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000x11 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC some time ago there was a vivid discussion about ability to > change/set MAC address of Ethernet cards. I'm faced with similar problem > right now: when building high-availability configuration it would be very > handy to do MAC takeover instead of IP takeover. So, my questions follow: > > * which cards support it (that have FreeBSD drivers of course)? > > * is there some way to set it (I couldn't find any code in the ifconfig > nor in the kernel)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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