> The kicker here isn't getting it to respond to multiple MACs, or even > redirect MACs as Ryan suggested, but to *associate* a particular MAC > address with a particular address. You'd need some way, at the kernel > level, to tell the OS that if a packet has a certain source address to > send it with a certain Ethernet header. When you're composing > individual packets and stuffing them in at the driver layer (how various > arp poisoning attacks like Ryan describe do their dirty work), it's not > so difficult to do. But you want to make a more large-scale > modification to the way the OS is determining what MAC address to use > when sending out packets. I did some cursory googling around to find a > way to accomplish this task, but to no avail. I think this would be > neat functionality to see in iptables or the iproute2 tools (or some > derivative) in the future, but presently I just don't think Linux is > capable of doing what you have in mind, in a wholesale manner. > > Hmm... perhaps if you ran multiple VMWare instances, and assigned each > VMWare instance one of the IPs in question, VMWare would handle the > associations for you -- but you're talking monstrous overhead. That > suggestion is really only meant to be humorous. :) > > This all begs the question, why are you trying to do this? It seems as > if either a) you're trying to bend the rules being imposed on you at a > network layer (fine by me, but perhaps we can help you come up w/ a > better way) or b) you're thinking about the problem with some ill > conceived assumptions. Perhaps a more thorough explanation would > provide more outside-the-box ideas. > > Aaron S. Joyner
It's been awhile since I setup a fail-over LVS cluster using UltraMonkey but as I remember it handled the MAC stuff fairly well - which let it seamlessly failover to another server on the same subnet. http://www.ultramonkey.org/papers/lvs_tutorial/ Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
