In article <F217ObEMYtoV8CnfnSw0000ffb2@hotmail.com> you wrote: > If my understanding is correct, ethernet cards have a fixed MAC address > which we cannot change - so, when we say that all bonded cards have > same HW address, I think we are talking about just the software state > at the driver. Please let me know if I am correct? Nope, you can eighter give your oen sending MAC address for each package or reprogram the ARP address of most cards. But the simplest solution is not watch for the sender's ARP if you are bonded. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html