From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 20:29: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74EED14D69 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/) via ESMTP id UAA27064; Fri, 14 May 1999 20:28:55 -0700 (PDT) env-from (jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Message-Id: <199905150328.UAA27064@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Steve Rubin Cc: David Scheidt , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address In-reply-to: Message from Steve Rubin of "Fri, 14 May 1999 20:24:49 PDT." <19990514202448.A9401@tch.org> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:28:55 -0700 From: John Milford Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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