netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711140113400.15397@bizon.gios.gov.pl>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:16:52 +0100 (CET)
From:	Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl>
To:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
cc:	davem@...emloft.net, jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000: Secondary unicast address support



On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Auke Kok wrote:

> From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
>
> Add support for configuring secondary unicast addresses. Unicast
> addresses take precendece over multicast addresses when filling
> the exact address filters to avoid going to promiscous mode.
> When more unicast addresses are present than filter slots,
> unicast filtering is disabled and all slots can be used for
> multicast addresses.

Is there any easy way to use it for VRRP? It would be really great to 
have two IP addresses on the same interface, each with a different hw 
address.

Best regards,

 				 Krzysztof Olędzki