From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Rich Wales <richw@richw.org>
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multiple MAC addresses for a single NIC using ebtables?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:30:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FE03A0.7060503@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48FD6087.6050307@liberation.richw.org>
Rich Wales wrote:
> Hi. I have four static IP addresses from my ISP. I'm using a firewall
> (Shorewall/Ubuntu) to connect my home LAN to the Internet, and various
> of my home machines are associated with various external IP addresses.
>
> Since the firewall has only one external NIC, all external traffic uses
> a single MAC address. This works -- but for various reasons, I would
> like to try to configure the box so that each one of my four external
> IP addresses will have its own separate MAC address.
>
> Does anyone have a ready-made example for how to do this (presumably
> using "ebtables")? I've been playing around with ebtables on a test
> system, but I can't seem to get all the pieces together to make this
> multi-MAC setup work.
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions.
The macvlan driver allows you to add virtual ethernet devices
with different mac addresses:
ip link add link eth0 [ name ] type macvlan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 4:54 Multiple MAC addresses for a single NIC using ebtables? Rich Wales
2008-10-21 15:45 ` Grant Taylor
2008-10-21 16:30 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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