Tasting a a glass of red wine :-) answering to mickey
> Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Luca Perugini:
> > Hi,
> > I'm working on vrrp implementation on OBSD.
> > My starting point was Linux vrrp implementation done by
> Jerome Etienne
> > and FreeBSD vrrp.
> > I hope in 2 or 3 weeks to have a "running" version of vrrpd
> for OBSD 3.1
>
> it cannot be vrrp due to patent problems w/ cisco.
> there is a vrrp implementation for openbsd, which
> is not allowed in public due to the beforementioned patent problems.

I know about patent problem .... my effort was testing and fun.

>
> > In the meaning time I send a patch around ifconfig and 'if' files to
> > support MAC showing and MAC setting on ethernet card.

I've patched ifconfig on OpenBSD 3.0 and ported to 3.1 using a work done
by.. don't remember who.. ok found it on OpenBSD mailing list .. work
done for OBSD 2.7 ...

>
> ifconfig already prints the mac address, in 3.2.

With "my" patch we can also set mac address.

Ciao



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