Multiple MACs on a single NIC

Jay Scherrer jay at scherrer.com
Sat Jul 10 18:16:26 UTC 2004


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Wouldn't that be where you use aliasing? For example: Aliasing 
Localhost.localdomain as localhost or myhost
And assigning these addresses in the /etc/hosts file.
127.0.0.1 	localhost.localdomain 	localhost
192.168.0.1	localhost				myhost
Would that work?
Jay
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> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:02:41 -0600
> From: "Jason Aeschilman" <jason at fatpipeinc.com>
> Subject: Re: Multiple MACs on a single NIC
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> I'd like to know if this is possible as well.  I know you can manually
> assign the MAC using ifconfig, but you can only configure one MAC to a
> given physical interface (e.g, eth0).  Is it the kernel or network card
> driver that determines the MAC that gets handed out in an ARP request?
>
> Now as for your exact situation "chicks", does your ISP use DHCP to assign
> the IPs?  If so, I don't see how you can get your FC2 box to grab more than
> one IP anyway.
>
> J.A.K.E.
> [ jake1138 AT yahoo DOT com ]
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