Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:28:55 -0700 From: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <199905150328.UAA27064@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> of "Fri, 14 May 1999 20:24:49 PDT." <19990514202448.A9401@tch.org>
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You have to have the capibility on the switch, and enable it first. It is called EtherChannel by Cisco, and it is 2 or 4 ports that all have the same MAC addr plugged into the switch, and the switch treats them as one interface. --John Steve Rubin <ser@tch.org> wrote: > > > > 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 ge t > > 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 everybo dy > > but the driver and the switch. I know that NetWare supports this, as do so me > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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