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Date:      Sat, 15 May 1999 11:50:50 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ifconfig: changing mac address
Message-ID:  <19990515115050.L89091@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990514211533.A27872@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:15:33PM -0500
References:  <19990515111348.K89091@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514205334.75011B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> <19990514211533.A27872@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.

I think you need to reconsider that idea.  How are you going to double
the bandwidth of the wire?

Greg
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