Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:46:44 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <373CFC34.D745325B@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990514220043.75420B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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David Scheidt wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> :OK, now maybe I'm missing something here. But an Ethernet address is
> :used to identify a board. Arp binds it to an IP address. An IP
> :address is bound to a network. So if you're on a different network,
> :you get a different IP address. Why do you need the same Ethernet
> :address?
>
> 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.
And all Xylan switches (soon, if not now.) ;^)
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