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Date:      Fri, 14 May 1999 21:15:33 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ifconfig: changing mac address
Message-ID:  <19990514211533.A27872@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514205334.75011B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>; from "David Scheidt" on Fri May 14 20:57:19 GMT 1999
References:  <19990515111348.K89091@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514205334.75011B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>

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In the last episode (May 14), David Scheidt said:
> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
> :It seems there's a need, and the possibility.  Would somebody like
> :to suggest a syntax?
> 
> ifconfig interface ether ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ab  [options]
> 
> makes sense to me.

And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards
ifconfig'd with the same MAC address are meant to be bonded together as
one route (lots of switches support this).  I have some machines that
I'd love to be able to get 20MB/sec bandwidth between transparently.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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