Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:11 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Message-ID: <199905151857.LAA00620@walker3.apple.com> In-Reply-To: <19990514211533.A27872@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Fri,May 14, 1999 at 09:15:33PM -0500
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> From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> > Date: 1999-05-14 19:21:11 -0700 > To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> > Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address > Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>,"Mark J. Taylor" > <mtaylor@cybernet.com>, Daniel Eischen > <eischen@vigrid.com>,freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > In-reply-to: <19990514211533.A27872@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on > Fri,May 14, 1999 at 09:15:33PM -0500 > Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 > Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 > X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF > Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia > WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog > Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 > Delivered-to: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > > On Friday, 14 May 1999 at 21:15:33 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (May 14), David Scheidt said: > >> On Sat, 15 May 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> :It seems there's a need, and the possibility. Would somebody like > >> :to suggest a syntax? > >> > >> ifconfig interface ether ab:cd:ef:fe:dc:ab [options] > >> > >> makes sense to me. > > > > And the next step would be to make the kernel realize that two cards > > ifconfig'd with the same MAC address are meant to be bonded together as > > one route (lots of switches support this). I have some machines that > > I'd love to be able to get 20MB/sec bandwidth between transparently. > > I think you need to reconsider that idea. How are you going to double > the bandwidth of the wire? I think Dan's thinking of switched ethernet, with a high-speed switch that can handle the bandwidth. Clearly won't work on thinnet, but with 10BaseT, you (can) have a switch providing increased bandwidth. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Manager, CoreOS Networking | Men are from Earth. Apple Computer, Inc. | Women are from Earth. 2 Infinite Loop | Deal with it. Cupertino, CA 95014 | *-------------------------------------*-------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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