Re: Changing mac addresses

From: fwells12 (fwells12@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Dec 28 2000 - 01:08:45 GMT-3


   
Muchas gracias.

----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Ingham <fningham@worldnet.att.net>
To: fwells12 <fwells12@hotmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: Changing mac addresses

> Suggest you use ipx routing 1.1.1 on router 1, ipx routing 2.2.2 on
> router 2, etc. This will give the MAC address 1.1.1/2.2.2 on all WAN
> links and can be used to check IPX pings. If you want all interfaces to
> have the same MAC address, configure DECNet.
>
> Fred.
>
> fwells12 wrote:
> >
> > Playing with some IPX labs and using the 'mac-add' command to customize
=
> > my interface mac addresses. I would like to be able to change just one
=
> > mac address and have all other interfaces on the router use that one for
=
> > the IPX node number. Can I do this or must I use the mac-add command =
> > and change each interfaces ID? If this cannot be done using one =
> > interface, can I use the same mac-address on every interface and still =
> > have it work fine, or must I use unique addresses on each interface? I
=
> > have tried using the same address on a number of interfaces on one =
> > router and the IOS has no problem letting me do this. However, I cannot
=
> > ipx ping the interfaces as I was able to prior to changing the mac =
> > addresses. This may be because it will take a little more time to =
> > propogate the routes across the networks...
> >
> > Thoughts please...=20
> >



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