-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Alexey V. Yurchenko wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:03:45 -0700 > Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > > Not interface should have a multicast MAC address. A > multicast address > > should only exist as a destination address, never a source. > > Well, that's in theory. In practice I need several computers > connected to a switch to share a single interface and look to > the rest of LAN as a single node. All those computers must > receive all packets desitned to that interface. Using > non-multicast MAC confuses many switches. > > Any suggestions? (Except not using a switch ;)) Enable the ports to be mirror ports and then they will get all the traffic targetted at the switch. But you do have to have a real switch to support that feature ;) Greets, Jeroen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Unfix PGP for Outlook Alpha 13 Int. Comment: Jeroen Massar / jeroen@unfix.org / http://unfix.org/~jeroen/ iQA/AwUBP3WPYSmqKFIzPnwjEQI0qQCfVKaVANvW1H3SnLe6zV7PWYil6QUAnA5z /CGLoEVQG7l3FqaVp6Ulba9l =0zfR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : 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
