From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 20:24:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tch.org (tacostand.tch.org [199.74.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049DE14D69 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser@tch.org) Received: (from ser@localhost) by tch.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA09406; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ser) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:24:49 -0700 From: Steve Rubin To: David Scheidt Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <19990514202448.A9401@tch.org> References: <19990515122826.O89091@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from David Scheidt on Fri, May 14, 1999 at 10:05:59PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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