From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jul 26 13:40:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA5937B409; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f6QKeqM56315; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D4BB38CC; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: Julian Elischer , "Eugene L. Vorokov" , Soren Kristensen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why two cards on the same segment... In-Reply-To: <3B6055C8.C0B5554D@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:40:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010726204052.7D4BB38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: [..] > At a guess, he's attempting to implement VRRP, which requires > that the virtual interface have a differen MAC address, Dont guess, ask. > and FreeBSD fails to support programming of MAC addresses, Damn, then I must be imagining the fact that I change MAC addresses with 'ifconfig ether' on a regular basis. (see: SIOCSIFLLADDR) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message