From: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: "'Alexey V. Yurchenko'" <ayurchen@mail.emicnetworks.com>,
       "'Stephen Hemminger'" <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: how to set multicast MAC ligitemately?
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:23:54 +0200
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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

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