Subject: Re: setting ethernet interface hardware address?
To: Nick Amato <naamato@nexthop.com>
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/16/2001 23:05:21
* Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> [011016 22:46] wrote:
> * Nick Amato <naamato@nexthop.com> [011016 21:49] wrote:
> > 
> > It's also worth noting that allowing configuration of MAC address
> > "aliases", where supported by the hardware, would be a nice feature.
> > This makes implementing something like VRRP (RFC 2338) much easier.
> 
> True, any suggestions though?

(sorry for the noise)

Perhaps abusing the 'alias' keyword will work as then you have hardware
aliases.  I'll have to see how that fits in with things.

thanks,
-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'