> My apologies if this isn't the right place to pose this question. > > Does anyone know of a way to have a NIC filter packets from a list of MAC > addresses.
Some network interfaces can be given more than one MAC address to which to listen. I don't know all the ones that can - but all of the Ethernet interfaces Network Appliance have used on machines that support our clustered failover capability, for example, support that (as we use it for failover - the failover partner of a dead machine takes over that machine's MAC addresses). > I would also need to be able to modify the list (add/remove) of MAC > addresses from a program in real time. On some OSes you can add and remove MAC addresses from an interface's list of MAC addresses *if* the interface and its driver support it. Some UNIXes, for example, support SIOCxxx ioctl's to do that.
