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SubjectRe: ethtool documentation
Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> | On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:
> |
> | > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> | >
> | > > Because of this, there is no such thing as 'unused eeprom space' in
> | > > the Ethernet Controllers. Be careful about putting this weapon in
> | > > the hands of the 'public'. All you need is for one Linux Machine
> | > > on a LAN to end up with the same IEEE Station Address as another
> | > > on that LAN and connectivity to everything on that segment will
> | > > stop. You do this once at an important site and Linux will get a
> | > > very black eye.

Actually, any important site has some kind of failover in place, and they
could very well be using this feature to provide seamless MAC/IP takeover
in the case of a server outtage.

This feature also allows bridging to work, and anyone with root priviledges
can send any ethernet packet they want using a raw packet socket anyway.

Ben

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