[plug] Ethernet Bonding

[Adrian Woodley]

That will set the same mac-address to all interfaces in the bond group,
including the bond interface itself. Been there, tried that :)

Adrian


On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 16:41 +0800, Craig Foster wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> > Behalf Of Adrian Woodley
> > Sent: Thursday, 18 October 2007 3:36 PM
> > To: plug at plug.org.au
> > Subject: [plug] Ethernet Bonding
> > 
> > By default, all interfaces in a bond group will be assigned the MAC
> > address of the first slave interface.
> > 
> > Does anyone know a way to have each interface retain its own MAC,
> > including the bond interface itself?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Adrian
> 
> Why not set the ALB bond group to a fake MAC address?
> 
> 
> In fact ifconfig or ip link should do it (it's even in the bonding FAQ
> :P)
> <http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Bonding#Where_does_a_bonding_device
> _get_its_MAC_address_from.3F>
> 
> 
> CraigF.
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Adrian

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