Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 12:17:47 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <19990515121747.N89091@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514213911.75242A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>; from David Scheidt on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 09:41:23PM -0500 References: <19990515115050.L89091@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514213911.75242A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:41:23 -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > :On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > :> > :> 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? > : > > I think he means having two interfaces in each box, with the same MAC. So he > has two wires, each with 10Mbs. If you have two different nets, why do you need the same Ethernet address? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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