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Re: MAC address issue



On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:35:10PM +0100, comfooc wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2008 5:22 PM, matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Well.. I think the discussions came down to points about how netbsd
> > supported actually changing the mac address of a card in its firmware
> > sometimes, so "faking it" on cards that didn't support such activities
> > didn't seem clean.  I personally like the idea of using a virtual
> > interface when I'm doing this sort of thing.
> >
> 
> Hmm that seems to be reasonable, cleaner and simpler (in coding). I'm
> satisfied by Your answer. Thank You.
> 
> P.S.
> Maybe I missed it but it would be nice to make something like hint (or
> tip) in guide pointing to this nice etherip(4) trick...

It's actually tap+bridge, not etherip.

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