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From: Alexey Marinichev <lyosha@lyosha.2y.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] multiple MAC addresses from one network card
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:45:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98659717514282@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-98659466008892@msgid-missing>

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:35:28PM -0800, James A. Crippen wrote:
[...]
> > it would
> > still be extremely difficult to convince any ethernet
> > card or pcmcia card to have more than one 'mac' address.
> 
> There is AFAIK no way to assign multiple concurrent addresses to a
> device.  Does anyone know otherwise?  Is it even theoretically
> possible?  I don't think so the way most cards are designed.

Vmware seems to be able to do it.  They assign different ethernet
address to a network card in the virtual machine.  It might as well
involve putting the card in promiscuous mode and filtering out packets
that do not have addresses we're interested in.

	--Lyosha

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-06 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-06 22:03 [LARTC] multiple MAC addresses from one network card Alexey Marinichev
2001-04-06 22:10 ` James A. Crippen
2001-04-06 22:16 ` Terry L. Ridder
2001-04-06 22:26 ` Alexey Marinichev
2001-04-06 22:35 ` James A. Crippen
2001-04-06 22:43 ` James A. Crippen
2001-04-06 22:45 ` Alexey Marinichev [this message]
2001-04-06 22:53 ` Terry L. Ridder
2001-04-06 22:59 ` James A. Crippen
2001-04-06 23:12 ` Breen Mullins
2001-04-06 23:48 ` Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-04-06 23:50 ` James A. Crippen
2001-04-07  0:24 ` Ingram Leedy

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