From: "Alexey V. Yurchenko" <ayurchen@mail.emicnetworks.com>
To: 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 16:04:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030927160445.6ff09796.ayurchen@mail.emicnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030926120345.6668d96f.shemminger@osdl.org>
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 ;))
Regards,
Alex
PS isn't this approach (forbidding certain addresses) a tad Microsoftish? Like saving users from themselves? If
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 18:53 Alexey V. Yurchenko
2003-09-26 19:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-09-27 13:04 ` Alexey V. Yurchenko [this message]
2003-09-27 13:23 ` Jeroen Massar
2003-09-27 13:40 ` Pekka Savola
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