From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guy Van Den Bergh Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 23:48:18 +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 > > 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 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/