Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:24:49 -0700 From: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <19990514202448.A9401@tch.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514220043.75420B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>; from David Scheidt on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 10:05:59PM -0500 References: <19990515122826.O89091@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514220043.75420B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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> > You need a switch to do this. If your clients are on the same ethernet as > your server, they can only talk to one MAC address. That means you only get > the bandwidth of one interface. If you have a switch that can bond ports > together, you can use both cards at the same time, transparently to everybody > but the driver and the switch. I know that NetWare supports this, as do some > Bay switch, and surely some Cisco stuff. > Having 2 ethernet cards with the same mac address on two different ports of all the cisco switches I have used (1100-6500) will confuse the hell out of them :). I've seen it happen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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