Am 12.01.2013 12:01, schrieb Tim:
Allegedly, on or about 11 January 2013, Alan Cox sent:
> The MAC has to be *host* unique not port unique. Thus some old SPARC
> boxes have one Mac for all the ports. Many Ethernet bridges also do
> the same trick.
I would have thought they'd need to be LAN unique, since the MAC is used
for communication between the right NICs on a LAN. How's that going to
work when they're not unique.
google for NIC bonding / teaming
http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/bonding.html
it IS unique for the LAN but not for the machine
that is why failover can work as it works
it would be only a problem if DIFFERENT MACHINES have he
same MAC because it is used fro cummunication and so it would
be random who get which packages but with bondig it does not
matter on which NIC packets are coming in and going out because
it is the target of bonding using more than one NIC and with
round-robin you even use all the NICs at the same time and not
only for failover