On 29 March 2013 07:37, Ryan Stone <ryst...@gmail.com> wrote: > From a quick glance at if_vlan.c, it doesn't do anything intelligent when > you change its MAC address. I also don't know of any ethernet driver in > FreeBSD that allows you to use multiple unicast MACs at once (I have some > patches for ixgbe, but they aren't ready for prime-time). If you really > want to have a different MAC on your vlan interface from its parent you > will have to put the parent into promiscuous mode. > > The ath(4) NICs do - for multi-VAP hostap (and soon, multi-STA) support. But the NICs have a BSS Mask register which lets the NIC pass through packets that match a filter, rather than having to put it into promiscuous mode.
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