Re: strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver

Timothy Covell (timothy.covell@ashavan.org)
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:20:42 -0600

On Friday 11 January 2002 06:07, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 05:55:20 -0600
>
> Let me clarify what I said earlier. You cannot have
> identical MAC addresses on two different NICs.
>
> There is nothing illegal about that at all. As long at
> the NICs live on different subnets, it is perfectly fine.
> In fact this is pretty common on Sun machines.

True. I was assuming that the context of the post was
that the NICs were on the same network link.

Solaris _defaults_ to using the MAC address from the
primary (hostname) NIC for the rest of them. IMHO, this
is a really stupid thing to do, and I disable it tout de suite
when given a choice. Of course, if you like it, then
why don't you try to convince Linus to change his mind
about it?

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