From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 21:42:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A0F14E6F for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 21:42:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.224]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03725; Fri, 14 May 1999 22:42:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <373CFB23.FD374A45@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:42:11 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Mark J. Taylor" , Daniel Eischen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address References: <199905141918.PAA01313@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <19990515111348.K89091@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 15:43:15 -0400, Mark J. Taylor wrote: > > > > One of the purposes of changing the MAC address is for server > > redundancy. > > Yes, and in fact Tandem^H^H^H^H^H^HCompaq use this for their NonStop > Ethernet. The machine has two ethernet boards. If one goes down, the > other assumes its identity. > > It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like to > suggest a syntax? Be sure to account for canonical vs. non-canonical representations for Token Ring while you're at it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message