Multiple MACs on a single NIC

Jason Aeschilman jason at fatpipeinc.com
Sun Jul 11 02:00:29 UTC 2004


>>> I'd like to know if this is possible as well.  I know you can manually
>>> assign the MAC using ifconfig, but you can only configure one MAC to a
>>> given physical interface (e.g, eth0).  Is it the kernel or network card
>>> driver that determines the MAC that gets handed out in an ARP request?
>>>
>>> Now as for your exact situation "chicks", does your ISP use DHCP to
assign
>>> the IPs?  If so, I don't see how you can get your FC2 box to grab more
than
>>> one IP anyway.
>>>
>>> J.A.K.E.
>>> [ jake1138 AT yahoo DOT com ]

>> Wouldn't that be where you use aliasing? For example: Aliasing
>> Localhost.localdomain as localhost or myhost
>> And assigning these addresses in the /etc/hosts file.
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>> 192.168.0.1 localhost myhost
>> Would that work?
>> Jay

This has nothing to do with ARP and MAC addresses.

J.A.K.E.
[ jake1138 AT yahoo DOT com ]





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