From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: timothy.covell@ashavan.org
Cc: zhengpei@msu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:07:15 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020111.040715.48529485.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201111159.g0BBxCSr001144@svr3.applink.net>
In-Reply-To: <LIECKFOKGFCHAPOBKPECEEGCCNAA.zhengpei@msu.edu> <200201110524.g0B5OeSr000566@svr3.applink.net> <200201111159.g0BBxCSr001144@svr3.applink.net>
From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:55:20 -0600
Let me clarify what I said earlier. You cannot have
identical MAC addresses on two different NICs.
There is nothing illegal about that at all. As long at
the NICs live on different subnets, it is perfectly fine.
In fact this is pretty common on Sun machines.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-11 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-11 4:19 strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver Pei Zheng
2002-01-11 5:20 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 11:55 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 12:07 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-01-11 12:20 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 12:28 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-12 21:37 ` Prof. Brand
2002-01-12 21:44 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-11 19:02 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 19:24 ` Paul Walmsley
2002-01-11 22:51 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-12 21:37 ` Prof. Brand
2002-01-12 21:58 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-11 19:33 ` Pei Zheng
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-14 6:32 Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-01-14 7:41 ` Bernd Eckenfels
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