On Wednesday, 02/02/2011 at 01:29 EST, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > Aside from DECnet and SNA support, what still needs the ability to > overwrite the MAC address of an interface these days?
Are all the MAC-level takeover HA solutions gone? I thought some workload sprayers used MAC spoofing to perform transparent workload transfers. The only other reason I can think of to overwrite the MAC is in order to get a specific DHCP reservation (not the same as static IP). Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
