From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: on the topic of alternate MAC addresses
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:14:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4720CEE2.1010007@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13avz6ujf.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Duplicate mac addresses across interfaces on the same machine
> should generally be a don't care. Although there may some
> cases we don't mind.
What might the switches think of that? Outside of the context of a
link-aggregate I would think that could do some unhappy things when multiple
interfaces are connected to the same broadcast domain.
That the "all interfaces have one MAC" default behaviour on SPARC systems often
ran into troubles is probably cautionary here.
rick jones
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-25 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 1:05 on the topic of alternate MAC addresses David Miller
2007-10-24 2:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 2:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 3:22 ` David Miller
2007-10-24 9:28 ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-25 16:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-25 17:14 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2007-10-25 17:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
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