From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 15 11:57:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-out1.apple.com (mail-out1.apple.com [17.254.0.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD9614C9E for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from justin@walker3.apple.com) Received: from mailgate2.apple.com ([17.129.100.225]) by mail-out1.apple.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26400 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:22 -0700 Received: from scv3.apple.com (scv3.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (mailgate2.apple.com- SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:15 -0700 Received: from walker3.apple.com (walker3.apple.com [17.219.24.201]) by scv3.apple.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA33122; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:13 -0700 Received: by walker3.apple.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA00620; Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905151857.LAA00620@walker3.apple.com> To: Greg Lehey Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address Cc: Dan Nelson , David Scheidt , "Mark J. Taylor" , Daniel Eischen , 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 Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 11:57:11 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" Reply-To: justin@apple.com X-Mailer: by Apple MailViewer (2.105.dev) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Greg Lehey > Date: 1999-05-14 19:21:11 -0700 > To: Dan Nelson > Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address > Cc: David Scheidt ,"Mark J. Taylor" > , Daniel Eischen > ,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