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Date:      Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:50:26 +0200
From:      Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAC takeover
Message-ID:  <19990902135026.A21902@foobar.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909021314540.88559-100000@freja.webgiro.com>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:18:47PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909021314540.88559-100000@freja.webgiro.com>

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On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:18:47PM +0200, 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)?
> 
I think Bill Paul wrote a tool to do that - you could try out
  http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/mac.tar.gz

bye,
  Harold

-- 
<Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein.
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