Re: MAC address issue

[jonathan%dsg.stanford.edu@localhost]

In message <20080118170120.GL1868%che.ojctech.com@localhost>David Young writes

>Let us put aside lladdr preferences, and use only the 'active' flag,
>instead.  Only one lladdr may be active at a time, deleting an active
>lladdr is not allowed (EBUSY), and setting a second lladdr to 'active'
>clears the 'active' state on every other lladdr.


Huh? What about hardware capable of, and IETF protocols which call
for, multiple active link-level addresses on a single interface??

Are you proposing a user/kernel API which makes those ~impossible?