Subject: Re: Patch to change ethernet link addresses
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org, tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/09/2003 20:17:33 
In message <20030809235947.GA1893@che.ojctech.com>, David Young writes:

>
>I tentatively agree with Itojun that you should use SIOCDLIFADDR and
>SIOCALIFADDR, instead of SIOCSLIFADDR, in anticipation of link-level
>aliases. I agree tentatively because I do not (yet) see why support for
>link-level aliases is desirable.

A bridge may want to emulate the MAC address of each host for which 
it's forwarding traffic.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb