Re: ideas about kernel masq table syncing ...

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Mack <mack@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Joseph> Is this useful, or is Sun just being different?

Sun being different mainly.  Going this route saves them having to
register 802.3 MAC addresses with the global registry as the boxes
already have a unique ID anyway; the low four octets of MAC address
are set to this value.

It's only ever *not* useful (actively bad) when you attach multiple
ports to the same shared media (why do that anyway) or to the same
802.3 switch, where it produces some fascinating failure modes.

-- 
Stephen

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