Date: 27 Apr 1998 11:00:58 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>=?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C?= Alfred Perlstein" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Hans Huebner <hans@artcom.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover Message-ID: <xzpra2jfxkl.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Matthew N. Dodd"'s message of "Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:39:13 -0400 (EDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980426233709.21511D-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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"Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> writes: > I'm kind of puzzled at how this would be integrated with the > SIOCGHWADDR/SIOCSHWADDR calls as you might also need a way of determining > which hadware address to set/get :) No. You can set any arbitrary MAC address, but it will make a heavy impact on network performance, since much of what is usually done in hardware (discarding packets not meant for you) will have to be done in software. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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