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. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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