Support for multiple Unicast MAC addresses by a NIC card.
<[email protected]> Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:00:45 +0530
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1056008528== content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C459B4.C7D62B37" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C459B4.C7D62B37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, =20 There are some instances, where it is required to assign multiple MAC addresses to an interface. e.g. I am trying to implement VRRP on Linux, wherein we have a different MAC address for every VRRP Router.=20 =20 But after surfing through the web , I found that no card (?) is there which support multiple MAC addresses. =20 Is there any workaround available for this problem. Can it be possible to assign multiple MAC addresses to an NIC card? =20 Thanks & Regards, Narendra =20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C459B4.C7D62B37 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4807.2300" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi=20 All,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There = are some=20 instances, where it is required to assign multiple MAC addresses to = an=20 interface.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>e.g. I = am trying to=20 implement VRRP on Linux, wherein we have a different MAC address = for every=20 VRRP Router. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>But=20 after surfing through the web , I found that no card (?) is = there=20 which support multiple MAC addresses.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Is = there any=20 workaround available for this problem. Can it be possible to assign = multiple MAC addresses to an NIC card?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks = &=20 Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2>Narendra</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3D553211306-24062004><FONT face=3DArial=20 size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTM= L> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C459B4.C7D62B37-- --===============1056008528== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ 3c509 mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/3c509 --===============1056008528==--