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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

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