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 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001701c384fa$99d61360$210d640a@unfix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030927160445.6ff09796.ayurchen@mail.emicnetworks.com>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 18:53 how to set multicast MAC ligitemately? Alexey V. Yurchenko
2003-09-26 19:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-09-27 13:04 ` Alexey V. Yurchenko
2003-09-27 13:23 ` Jeroen Massar [this message]
2003-09-27 13:40 ` Pekka Savola
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