From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Marinichev Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:45:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] multiple MAC addresses from one network card Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/