Multiple MACs on a single NIC

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 13:16, Jay Scherrer wrote:
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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

no.  The first address seen for localhost would (probably) be the only
one used.  You need to list all names for a single IP on the same line,
and all names should be unique for each IP address.
Multiple addresses with the same name may give strange results.

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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
> > To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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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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