Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 02:39:40 -0800 From: "Benjamin Black" <black@layer8.net> To: "Andrzej Bialecki" <abial@webgiro.com>, "Joe Abley" <jabley@patho.gen.nz> Cc: "Tony Finch" <dot@dotat.at>, <bright@wintelcom.net>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: downed IP addresses/redundancy Message-ID: <003f01bf6d69$cf20f320$0a45a8c0@layer8.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001292022310.87542-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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It's actually slightly more complicated than this as you must be able to specify *per IP* which MAC should be used, not simply per interface. That was the barrier which stopped my VRRP implementation as well. > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Joe Abley wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 01:19:53AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > > > I'd be interested to know of a free implementation of VRRP for the BSD > > > network stack. > > > > I started to look at this a while back, but started to flounder when > > I looked for an existing interface to allow me to source frames on > > a local ethernet with a userland-specified MAC address. > > > > Actually, I think I looked on OpenBSD, and can't remember whether I > > looked on FreeBSD too. If anybody has a good idea about how to send > > and receive frames on a local ethernet interface using one of several > > possible local MAC addresses (most user-specified) I can probably > > resurrect the code. > > Mhmmm... I'm using the code developed by Bill Paul, to change MAC address > via special ioctl. It works just fine for me. > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/setmac.tar.gz > > Andrzej Bialecki > > // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // ------------------------------------------------------------------- > // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- > // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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