MAC Address

[Steve Jenkin]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:59 +1200, Douglas Reamer wrote:
> " There are many other legitimate reasons why you'd want to change the MAC
>  address."
> 
> Could you list me a few please?

* software licenced to the MAC address is one I've seen.
* For rather dumb equipment that doesn't (easily) allow an ARP cache
flush. When you change a server, you may want to set both its IP addr &
MAC address to avoid problems like that.
* virtual MAC address are needed for clustering & fail-over

Interesting where people on this list come from :-)

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