Re: mac address change on an eth alias

[Petre Bandac <g38@rdsbv.ro>]

just testing for my general knowledge

I heard that I can change the mac, I did as richard said and it went ok, and 
furthermore I wanted to change the mac of the alias, which I didn't succeed 
(richard's receipt gave the same mac - the mac I specifically assigned to the 
alias - to both IFC and it's alias)

so, I should take the final answer as no ?

thanks,

petre

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 00:53 Anno Domini, Ray Olszewski wrote using one 
of his keyboards:
> At 10:06 PM 12/17/02 +0000, pa3gcu wrote:
> >On Tuesday 17 December 2002 21:55, Petre Bandac wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> > > so I didn't get what I wanted - the mac of the alias being different
> > > than the interface's; should I presume "no can do" ?
> >
> >I myself have never used aliasing, i do however need to spoof my MAC
> >sometimes on my laptop to be able to use it on other locations for my
> > work. However thats beside the point, as far as i can see if you set a
> > different IP# then the need for another MAC is (AFAIK) not nessasary.
> >If ARP's are a problem then setting static arps may be an answer, once
> > more i have no experiance with alising, possably Ray may have some advise
> > for you.
>
> Afraid not; I've never actually used aliasing (except in trivial test
> setups).
>
> Perhaps the best next step would be for you to explain  why you need the
> interfaces to respond as though they were on different physical devices
> (that is, NICs with distinct MAC addresses). With that information, then
> maybe someone here could suggest a workaround. But as far as I know, NICs
> only support a single MAC address at any moment, not multiple ones.

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