On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Ben Greear wrote:
> > It's possible with most NICs, but a few have explicit hardware protection
> > against it. The code to do it under Linux exists, but people are almost
> > always wrong in their desire to do this.
>
> It's extremely useful for some types of hot-standy setups. Some types
> of channel-bonding might find it useful as well. Other than that, I
> can't think of too many reasons either, but I'm sure someone else will :)
The channel bonding setup program copies the station address, but only the
soft copy the kernel keeps. It doesn't change the EEPROM entry.
Some people might want to restore a corrupted EEPROM, and others need to
change a replacement adapter to match the previous hardware for license
cookie reasons. But pretty much everyone that wants the EEPROM setup code
is doesn't really understand why they are wrong in their desire.
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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