From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 27 02:01:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22796 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:01:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22784 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 02:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id LAA00232; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:01:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:00:59 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C?= Alfred Perlstein" , Hans Huebner , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover References: Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 27 Apr 1998 11:00:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Matthew N. Dodd"'s message of "Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:39:13 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" 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