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Subject: Re: How to change MAC address on RPI-B?
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Hi,

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016 12:35:56 +0100
"John W. Kitz" <John.Kitz@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> To the best of my recollection at the time there was no need
> whatsoever to configure these NICs into promiscuous mode, which in

you need this for fault-tolerant computing. A machine or a device with
a known goes down, the failure will be detected and another device or
machine is configured to take over the other's task by also taking over
the other's MAC address. The communication partners will only a delay
but not a failure.

Erich