From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 14 21:47:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E3215491 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 21:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.224]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03746; Fri, 14 May 1999 22:46:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <373CFC34.D745325B@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:46:44 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Scheidt Cc: Greg Lehey , Dan Nelson , "Mark J. Taylor" , Daniel Eischen , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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.) ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message