From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 19:54: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.enteract.com (thor.enteract.com [207.229.143.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83E2214C29 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 19:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 24986 invoked from network); 15 May 1999 02:54:02 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by thor.enteract.com with SMTP; 15 May 1999 02:54:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (dscheidt@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id VAA75361; Fri, 14 May 1999 21:54:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell-1.enteract.com: dscheidt owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 21:54:02 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Greg Lehey Cc: Dan Nelson , "Mark J. Taylor" , Daniel Eischen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address In-Reply-To: <19990515121747.N89091@freebie.lemis.com> 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 On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: : :If you have two different nets, why do you need the same Ethernet :address? : Transparent redundancy. With them both up on the same MAC address, if one fails, you have no loss of connection, though you may drop some packets, of course. Most of the time you get twice the bandwidth. David, who doesn't want to think about writing a driver for this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message