[wplug] Duplicate ETH0, different hardware address

Brandon Poyner bpoyner at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 11:07:05 EST 2007


On 2/27/07, Brandon Poyner <bpoyner at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > I've used ifconfig eth0:0 to add a second IP address to the interface
> > > before, but is
> > > it possible to give the copy of the interface a different hardware address?
> >
> > That would be a kernel hack.  You'd have to check the L3 source address to
> > determine the L2 transmit source address, and vice versa.
>
> It doesn't seem to require a kernel hack...

I see what you're saying, nevermind.  Offhand I don't know a work around.

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