On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Guy Van Den Bergh wrote: > > > > 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. > > I don't know of any system to do this either, but I think it is theoretically possible. > If you can get your NIC to listen to *any* destination MAC address (promiscuous mode), why would it be > impossible to let it listen to two different destination MAC addresses. > But this remains theory. I don't know of any card that can do this... That's an idea for a kernel hack where you put the card into promiscuous mode and then filter from there for only certain addresses. But that would be a heavyhanded hack and I can see it chewing up quite a bit of resources on a busy network. 'james -- James A. Crippen <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ,-./-. Anchorage, Alaska, Lambda Unlimited: Recursion 'R' Us | |/ | USA, 61.2069 N, 149.766 W, Y = \f.(\x.f(xx)) (\x.f(xx)) | |\ | Earth, Sol System, Y(F) = F(Y(F)) \_,-_/ Milky Way.
