Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [2.2] Network Interface aliasing | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 1999 19:01:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> If this has changed in 2.2.x, and the kernel flags wrong MAC > addr packets before passing them to the IP layer great.
Both later 2.0 and all 2.2 handle this correctly and do checking in software for PROMISC devices. It was a bug.
That isnt a catchall however. It is legal to have a single MAC per machine with multiple interfaces (eg some Sun systems). This does wonderful wonderful things to switches 8)
Alan
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