>> overloaded for this, no? The driver could fail the request if it >> didn't support it; or if it has run out of slots for aliases. There >> should also be (I think) a way to tell the driver to go to >> promiscuous mode to emulate this (an "I really want this" request?), >> but I'm not sure it should be the default response to the "set >> hardware address" request.
>An alias would be nice. A standby system must be reachable before it >will be active and will need another MAC to be. >But I don't see any sence in having more than one MAC on one IP-Address. >So talking on IP it should be an optional argument to the ip-alias. Remembering that if you add multiple hw addresses to a single card, you then have to lock down IP addresses to hw addresses or things become very very very confused. Can someone with a little more experience in the IP/arp code explain this one a bit better? Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
