From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 4:54: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from foobar.franken.de (foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D357214D75 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 04:53:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA21926; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:50:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19990902135026.A21902@foobar.franken.de> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:50:26 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Andrzej Bialecki , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAC takeover References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Andrzej Bialecki on Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 01:18:47PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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