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
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> Andrzej Bialecki
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