Re: MAC Bindings

From: Richard Arends (richard@unixguru.nl)
Date: 08/24/01


Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 11:38:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Richard Arends <richard@unixguru.nl>
To: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
Subject: Re: MAC Bindings
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0108241134400.19610-100000@mail.unixguru.nl>

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Seth Arnold wrote:

> > You can disable arp on youre NIC with ifconfig (-arp or noarp). Then you
> > have to build a static arp-table for that NIC where al the hosts in your
> > are listed in with arp -s.
>
> Of course, many network drivers allow dynamically changing the MACs
> on NICs. While two similar MACs on one network will probably cause
> problems anyway, a static ARP table won't help much. :(

Two similar MACs on your network will allways cause problems. That has
nothing to do with static or dynamic arp.

Greetings,

Richard.



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