From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 4:52: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from medulla.hippocampus.net (medulla.hippocampus.net [204.138.241.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3577D14D75 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 04:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@netstor.com) Received: from localhost (marc@localhost) by medulla.hippocampus.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id HAA20150; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:51:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 07:51:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Marc Nicholas X-Sender: marc@medulla.hippocampus.net To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MAC takeover In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej: How about bringing up an additional logical or physical interface and spoofing the MAC address when the target machine fails? I really don't think you want to change the actual MAC address of a card...or do you? -marc ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Nicholas netSTOR Technologies, Inc. http://www.netstor.com "Fast, Expandable and Affordable Internet Caching Products" 1.877.464.4776 416.979.9000x11 fax: 416.979.8223 cell: 416.346.9255 On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC some time ago there was a vivid discussion about ability to > change/set MAC address of Ethernet cards. I'm faced with similar problem > right now: when building high-availability configuration it would be very > handy to do MAC takeover instead of IP takeover. So, my questions follow: > > * which cards support it (that have FreeBSD drivers of course)? > > * is there some way to set it (I couldn't find any code in the ifconfig > nor in the kernel)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message