From: Guy Van Den Bergh <guy.vandenbergh@pandora.be>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] multiple MAC addresses from one network card
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:48:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-98660102121268@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-98659466008892@msgid-missing>
>
> 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.
I don't know of any system to do this either, but I think it is theoretically possible.
If you can get your NIC to listen to *any* destination MAC address (promiscuous mode), why would it be
impossible to let it listen to two different destination MAC addresses.
But this remains theory. I don't know of any card that can do this...
>
> Why would you want to anyway?
I think such a feature might be useful if you want to do 802.1q vlan trunking,
but I'm not sure about it. The applications of such a feature will be rare anyway...
Guy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-06 23:48 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
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 [this message]
2001-04-06 23:50 ` James A. Crippen
2001-04-07 0:24 ` Ingram Leedy
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