hole in the argus archive on theorygroup.org

[Mark Poepping]

Do you mean:
 . are there mac addresses at all, or
 . are they different mac addresses, or
 . does the driver pass the mac address in any event?

Certainly the 'bonding' uses the mac addresses in making the balancing
decision.
Mark.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-argus-
> info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Van Epp
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:15 PM
> To: Carter Bullard
> Cc: argus
> Subject: Re: hole in the argus archive on theorygroup.org
> 
> 	I don't know for sure. The person that was trying it on a
commercial
> IDS system hasn't yet reported success or failure (she was asking if
anyone
> else had experience with it). Martin uses it on his beowolf cluster
but he
> only
> cares that packets get from one node to the other in understandable
form not
> what addresses they have when they get there :-). I expect I'll have
to find
> time (between arguing about how we are going to build this network) to
try
> this before September when the link is scheduled to go live.
> 
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
> 
> >
> > Hey Peter,
> >    Does the channel bonding preserve the ethernet addresses
> > on the packets?  That's one of the major problems with Linux's
> > 'any' interface.
> >
> > Carter
> >
> > Carter Bullard
> > QoSient, LLC
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> > New York, New York  10022
> >
> > carter at qosient.com
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> >