Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:31:12 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk (Philippe Regnauld) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: "linux 2.0.35 ip aliasing with aliased hwaddr" <mjbaker@CSLSERVER.CSL.MTU.EDU> Message-ID: <199810071231.NAA08461@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <19981007154128.15689@deepo.prosa.dk> from "Philippe Regnauld" at Oct 7, 98 03:41:09 pm
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> Would something similar be useful to have in FreeBSD ? ... > Included is a small patch to linux 2.0.35 that allows each aliased > device to have it's own mac separate from that of the actual device and > other aliases, making your single network card look like several from > any other node on the network, i think to make this work you need to put the card in promiscuous mode (on most hardware at least) and this kills performance especially for a 100Mbit net. Unless you have special reasons to do so, i really wouldn't like it. luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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