From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petre Bandac Subject: Re: mac address change on an eth alias Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:46:55 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200212181946.55601.g38@rdsbv.ro> References: <200212172355.32568.g38@rdsbv.ro> <5.1.0.14.1.20021217144923.020a7bd0@celine> Reply-To: g38@rdsbv.ro Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20021217144923.020a7bd0@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ray Olszewski , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org just testing for my general knowledge I heard that I can change the mac, I did as richard said and it went ok, and furthermore I wanted to change the mac of the alias, which I didn't succeed (richard's receipt gave the same mac - the mac I specifically assigned to the alias - to both IFC and it's alias) so, I should take the final answer as no ? thanks, petre On Wednesday 18 December 2002 00:53 Anno Domini, Ray Olszewski wrote using one of his keyboards: > At 10:06 PM 12/17/02 +0000, pa3gcu wrote: > >On Tuesday 17 December 2002 21:55, Petre Bandac wrote: > >[...] > > > > > so I didn't get what I wanted - the mac of the alias being different > > > than the interface's; should I presume "no can do" ? > > > >I myself have never used aliasing, i do however need to spoof my MAC > >sometimes on my laptop to be able to use it on other locations for my > > work. However thats beside the point, as far as i can see if you set a > > different IP# then the need for another MAC is (AFAIK) not nessasary. > >If ARP's are a problem then setting static arps may be an answer, once > > more i have no experiance with alising, possably Ray may have some advise > > for you. > > Afraid not; I've never actually used aliasing (except in trivial test > setups). > > Perhaps the best next step would be for you to explain why you need the > interfaces to respond as though they were on different physical devices > (that is, NICs with distinct MAC addresses). With that information, then > maybe someone here could suggest a workaround. But as far as I know, NICs > only support a single MAC address at any moment, not multiple ones. -- 19:43:21 up 7:15, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.16, 0.09 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs