Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:04:48 -0900 (AKST) | From | "Christopher E. Brown" <> | Subject | Re: [2.2] Network Interface aliasing |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If this has changed in 2.2.x, and the kernel flags wrong MAC > > addr packets before passing them to the IP layer great. > > Both later 2.0 and all 2.2 handle this correctly and do checking in software > for PROMISC devices. It was a bug.
Ok, I will go for this (nice to know it is fixed now). IIRC the last time I ran a specific test of this behav was ~ 2.0.28 or so.
> That isnt a catchall however. It is legal to have a single MAC per machine > with multiple interfaces (eg some Sun systems). This does wonderful > wonderful things to switches 8)
Hmm, switch, VLAN support, host multihomed across VLANS an said switch... Now where did we put than MAC routing table again? ;-)
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