From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 16 2:57:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ewok.creative.net.au (ewok.creative.net.au [203.30.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B4E014D6C for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 02:57:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 7006 invoked by uid 1008); 16 May 1999 09:57:39 -0000 Message-ID: <19990516095739.7004.qmail@ewok.creative.net.au> From: adrian@freebsd.org To: Bernd Walter Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig: changing mac address In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 May 1999 11:48:42 +0200." <19990516114842.A48820@cicely8.cicely.de> Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 17:57:38 +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> overloaded for this, no? The driver could fail the request if it >> didn't support it; or if it has run out of slots for aliases. There >> should also be (I think) a way to tell the driver to go to >> promiscuous mode to emulate this (an "I really want this" request?), >> but I'm not sure it should be the default response to the "set >> hardware address" request. >An alias would be nice. A standby system must be reachable before it >will be active and will need another MAC to be. >But I don't see any sence in having more than one MAC on one IP-Address. >So talking on IP it should be an optional argument to the ip-alias. Remembering that if you add multiple hw addresses to a single card, you then have to lock down IP addresses to hw addresses or things become very very very confused. Can someone with a little more experience in the IP/arp code explain this one a bit better? Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message