From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 26 11:02:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26059 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA24477 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA11748 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:41:29 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA21807; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:55:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199804261055.MAA21807@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: FreeBSD HA configuration / Ethernet address takeover In-Reply-To: from Hans Huebner at "Apr 26, 98 00:52:12 am" To: hans@artcom.de (Hans Huebner) Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 12:55:46 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Hans Huebner wrote... > Hello again, > > On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > In your case, if you know the adapter(s) you're using, you could add > > code to allow the change to be made. This would involve implementing > > the SIOCGIFHWADDR and SIOCSIFHWADDR (get/set hardware address) socket > > ioctls, which would be relatively simple. > I looked at the DE21040 documentation and found out that you're right. I > also found out that this particular Ethernet chip allows for multiple MAC You will probably find that all (well...) DEC ethernetcards / chips can do so. At least the ones that are supported in DECnet environments. DECnet changes the MAC address (don't ask me why) of the card. W/ _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko @ yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW: http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message