Tom Eastep wrote: > Rich Wales wrote: >> On October 21, Tom wrote: >> >>>> Turns out that Rich posted on the netfilter list and got this >>>> reply from Patrick McHardy (Netfilter lead maintainer): >>>> >>>>> The macvlan driver allows you to add virtual ethernet devices >>>>> with different mac addresses: >>>>> >>>>> ip link add link eth0 [ name ] type macvlan >> Yes. Unfortunately, though, I was not able to get it to work. I also >> tried using a combination of macvlan and ebtables, but I couldn't get >> my firewall to use the second MAC address for the separate IP address. > > I don't know why it shouldn't have worked for you -- I just tried it and > had it working in less than 5 minutes, including updating my Shorewall > config for two net interfaces.
I should add however that this is not a particularly easy feature to use in general, which could be why Rich thought that it wasn't working. You have to set it up MultiISP with one 'Provider' for each maclan interface and then use policy routing to direct traffic out of a particular interface. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ The ultimate result of shielding men from the Shoreline, \ effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Washington, USA \ -Herbert Spencer http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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