At 02:01 PM 6/22/01 -0500, Chris wrote:
> More of a curiosity really. I was just wondering why echowall uses MAC
>addresses instead of IP for forwarding traffic? Or is this a clueless
>question about ipchains, of which I know very little?
>
> I have some services that move from box-to-box (its my DR strategy :P).
>But with MAC addresses, I would be required to reboot/kill -HUP(?) the
>router as well. Before, I was just changing the IP to match that of the
>original box while it was offline.
Basically, Chris, when Scott and I (and others, but not on this list) were
originally developing what became echowall.lrp, we were looking for a
firewalling setup that would work with systems that assigned IP addresses to
the LAN dynamically. Hence the use of MAC addresses (not really permanent,
but much more so than IP addresses), gatping, and other stuff that went by
the wayside.
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