From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 19:15:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF1715469 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 19:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA27953; Fri, 14 May 1999 21:15:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:15:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Scheidt Cc: Greg Lehey , "Mark J. Taylor" , Daniel Eischen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <19990514211533.A27872@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19990515111348.K89091@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "David Scheidt" on Fri May 14 20:57:19 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message