freebsd-net: ether alias

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Андрей Поляков wrote:
> Hi, I am using freebsd 6.2.  And I am doubt how to add a harware  
> address alias to my NIC wich would be associated with ip. For  
> example, there are configuration:
[ ... ]
> How do I setup multiple mac addresses?

You can do this by proxy-arping; see "man arp":

      -s hostname ether_addr
              Create an ARP entry for the host called hostname with  
the Ether-
              net address ether_addr.  The Ethernet address is given  
as six hex
              bytes separated by colons.  The entry will be permanent  
unless
              the word temp is given in the command.  If the word pub  
is given,
              the entry will be ``published''; i.e., this system will  
act as an
              ARP server, responding to requests for hostname even  
though the
              host address is not its own.  In this case the  
ether_addr can be
              given as auto in which case the interfaces on this host  
will be
              examined, and if one of them is found to occupy the  
same subnet,
              its Ethernet address will be used.  If the only keyword  
is also
              specified, this will create a ``published (proxy  
only)'' entry.
              This type of entry is created automatically if arp  
detects that a
              routing table entry for hostname already exists.

-- 
-Chuck