From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 8 13:51:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4654937B418 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA8Lpfa15634; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:51:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fA8Lpd746497; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 14:51:39 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200111082151.fA8Lpd746497@harmony.village.org> To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard. Cc: Mike Meyer , "Nicpon, John" , Jonathan Lemon , Kent Stewart , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2001 22:37:16 +0100." <20011108223716.A10909@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011108223716.A10909@freebie.xs4all.nl> <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA229405F@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> <15338.62167.240104.199613@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:51:39 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20011108223716.A10909@freebie.xs4all.nl> Wilko Bulte writes: : Things like DECnet used to do it. And I think some server clustering : solutions might still do it. Some clustering solutions do do it to this day. They provide for completely trasnparent IP failover, and experience has shown that the easiest way to do that is for the MAC to be taken over. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message