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From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org>
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, timothy.covell@ashavan.org
Subject: Re: strange kernel message when hacking the NIC driver
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:20:42 -0600
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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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