Andrzej:
How about bringing up an additional logical or physical interface and
spoofing the MAC address when the target machine fails? I really don't
think you want to change the actual MAC address of a card...or do you?
-marc
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On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> IIRC some time ago there was a vivid discussion about ability to
> change/set MAC address of Ethernet cards. I'm faced with similar problem
> right now: when building high-availability configuration it would be very
> handy to do MAC takeover instead of IP takeover. So, my questions follow:
>
> * which cards support it (that have FreeBSD drivers of course)?
>
> * is there some way to set it (I couldn't find any code in the ifconfig
> nor in the kernel)?
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