Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2001 13:23:35 -0500 (EST) | From | "Mark H. Wood" <> | Subject | Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants |
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On Wed, 16 May 2001 mike_phillips@urscorp.com wrote: > > The same situation appears when using bonding.o. For several years, > > Don Becker's (and derived) network drivers support changing MAC address > > when the interface is down. So Al's /dev/eth/<n>/MAC has different > values > > depending on whether bonding is active or not. Should /dev/eth/<n>/MAC > > always have the original value (to be able to uniquely identify this > card) > > or the in-use value (used by ARP, I believe) ? Or maybe have a > > /dev/eth/<n>/MAC_in_use ? > > Token ring has the same problem as well, most token ring adapters support > setting a LAA.
Ethernet cards have both a fixed "hardware" address and the mutable "physical" address. How about TR? And how many cards give you no access to the hardware address?
-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Make a good day.
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