Messages in this thread | | | From | Timothy Covell <> | Subject | Re: strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:20:42 -0600 |
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On Friday 11 January 2002 06:07, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org> > Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:55:20 -0600 > > Let me clarify what I said earlier. You cannot have > identical MAC addresses on two different NICs. > > There is nothing illegal about that at all. As long at > the NICs live on different subnets, it is perfectly fine. > In fact this is pretty common on Sun machines.
True. I was assuming that the context of the post was that the NICs were on the same network link.
Solaris _defaults_ to using the MAC address from the primary (hostname) NIC for the rest of them. IMHO, this is a really stupid thing to do, and I disable it tout de suite when given a choice. Of course, if you like it, then why don't you try to convince Linus to change his mind about it?
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