From: Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy (grisha_at_ispol.com)
Date: Tue 07 Dec 2004 - 16:30:25 GMT

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On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Darryl Ross wrote:

> I haven't had a look to see how you're doing the network stuff, but does
> it support (or will it support) the ability to set the ethernet MAC
> address for the virtual interface inside a vserver?

AFAIK the decision on whether to accept a packet destined for a specific
MAC address lies within the hardware of the network card (unless it's
running in promiscuous mode), so this is a hardware limitation.

Grisha
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