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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Router only talks to one mac address. Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:14:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5dokm7$lfs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5catjn$3ot@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> <01bc0c91$3be6bd60$0801a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35522 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> wrote: > First, try to make friends with the network administrator - what > your dealing with is a switching hub, not a router. (Routers switch > at the protocol layer, not the mac address layer) Not necessary. I know it at least from Ascend who sell crippled routers that only talk to the very first MAC address on the wire they ever see. I'm afraid some marketing droid is very proud of that crock. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)