Hi, I have a patch against the current initscripts that I would like to share. What the patch does is adds a step during interface initialization to preload mac addresses. It works very similar to routes or aliases. I know people do something ad hoc to do the same thing like /etc/ethers, but this sort of formalizes the practice and makes it per interface. This works out nicely with netplugd. The patch includes a simple utility to create proper mac entries for the maclist. Suppose for example you wanted to preload the mac addresses of ns1, ns2 and gateway into the arp table whenever the eth0 interface comes up. You would: ip2mac 192.168.1.3 > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/maclist-eth0 ip2mac 192.168.1.2 >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/maclist-eth0 ip2mac 192.168.1.1 >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/maclist-eth0 Then ifdown & ifup eth0 and its got those mac addresses loaded. The patch can be downloaded from: http://www.web-insights.net/initscripts-7.61.1-maclist.patch You need to make sure ip2mac and ifup-maclist are chmod 0755. Bug reports, improvements, and comments are welcome. Thanks, -Steve Grubb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
