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Date:      Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:51:39 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, "Nicpon,     John" <John.Nicpon@SouthTrust.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SIS 900 Onboard NIC /w SIS 735 Chipset Motherboard. 
Message-ID:  <200111082151.fA8Lpd746497@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2001 22:37:16 %2B0100." <20011108223716.A10909@freebie.xs4all.nl> 
References:  <20011108223716.A10909@freebie.xs4all.nl>  <2AACFCDB6086274CA42D44085EF1BAA229405F@msm-001.msg.stcorp.com> <15338.62167.240104.199613@guru.mired.org> 

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In message <20011108223716.A10909@freebie.xs4all.nl> Wilko Bulte writes:
: Things like DECnet used to do it. And I think some server clustering 
: solutions might still do it.

Some clustering solutions do do it to this day.  They provide for
completely trasnparent IP failover, and experience has shown that the
easiest way to do that is for the MAC to be taken over.

Warner

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