From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 2 2:42:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tristero.cryptocourier.com (black-3.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.56.189]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4637C3DDA for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 02:42:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5159 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2000 10:43:15 -0000 Received: from ae.layer8.net (HELO ae) (192.168.69.10) by tristero.cryptocourier.com with SMTP; 2 Feb 2000 10:43:15 -0000 Message-ID: <003f01bf6d69$cf20f320$0a45a8c0@layer8.net> Reply-To: "Benjamin Black" From: "Benjamin Black" To: "Andrzej Bialecki" , "Joe Abley" Cc: "Tony Finch" , , References: Subject: Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 02:39:40 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's actually slightly more complicated than this as you must be able to specify *per IP* which MAC should be used, not simply per interface. That was the barrier which stopped my VRRP implementation as well. > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > > > I'd be interested to know of a free implementation of VRRP for the BSD > > > network stack. > > > > I started to look at this a while back, but started to flounder when > > I looked for an existing interface to allow me to source frames on > > a local ethernet with a userland-specified MAC address. > > > > Actually, I think I looked on OpenBSD, and can't remember whether I > > looked on FreeBSD too. If anybody has a good idea about how to send > > and receive frames on a local ethernet interface using one of several > > possible local MAC addresses (most user-specified) I can probably > > resurrect the code. > > Mhmmm... I'm using the code developed by Bill Paul, to change MAC address > via special ioctl. It works just fine for me. > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/setmac.tar.gz > > Andrzej Bialecki > > // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // ------------------------------------------------------------------- > // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- > // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message