Hello everybody.
I'm trying to set up a little networking cluster for high availity. When the
central node goes down the old MAC is got by another node. That's:
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 'old:node:hw:address'
This is ok in one node with a NE2000 clone card. But in another one, with a ICL
Etherteam16, the hardware adress doesn't change:
#(abulafia card have 00:00:4b:0d:20:17)
abulafia:/root# ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:00:4b:0d:20:18
abulafia:/root# ifconfig eth0 | grep HW
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:4B:0D:20:18
abulafia:/root# ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 | grep HW
eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:4B:0D:20:17
Is MAC adquisition a card dependent feature?
Another question:
Is there any spec in the ARP protocol to send a 'update your arp cache' petition
to the host in a [sub]network. If the answer is no I'll have to do this on the
client side, I suppose :-(.
Greetings.
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Enrique I.R. - Freelance Sofware Developer.
Gran Canaria. Spain.
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