Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:25:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: murthy kn <knmurthy30@hotmail.com> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netgraph one2many question Message-ID: <200110220425.f9M4PmY91280@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <F89x1Dy3riCTVuy16xs00000dc4@hotmail.com> "from murthy kn at Oct 21, 2001 02:25:45 am"
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murthy kn writes: > 1.In the context of one2many, in the manpage example, I see that it puts the > interfaces into promiscuous mode. My question is, instead of turning on the > promiscuous mode, will it not work if we use the "ifconfig lladdr" to > temporarily change the MAC address (hardware > receive filter) of the cards to that of the master card (fxp0 in the manpage > example). Assuming "ifconfig lladdr" changes both the transmit and receive MAC addresses, that should work... > 2. Are the messages like "arp: something was on fxp0 got the reply from > fxp1...." kind of messages harmful - can I turn it off if in any way. > I get lot of such messages when I enable multiple cards connected on the > same segment on a FreeBSD machine. Try sysctl -w net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface=0 > 3. Is it possible to have multiple cards with the same IP address > on a FreeBSD machine. Not sure.. I don't think so... which one would FreeBSD use to send packets?? -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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