Re: [LARTC] multiple MAC addresses from one network card

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On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:35:28PM -0800, James A. Crippen wrote:
[...]
> > it would
> > still be extremely difficult to convince any ethernet
> > card or pcmcia card to have more than one 'mac' address.
> 
> There is AFAIK no way to assign multiple concurrent addresses to a
> device.  Does anyone know otherwise?  Is it even theoretically
> possible?  I don't think so the way most cards are designed.

Vmware seems to be able to do it.  They assign different ethernet
address to a network card in the virtual machine.  It might as well
involve putting the card in promiscuous mode and filtering out packets
that do not have addresses we're interested in.

	--Lyosha



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