[c-nsp] Are multicast MAC addresses allowed in the source field?

John Neiberger jneiberger at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 16:42:11 EDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM,  <Christopher.Marget at usc-bt.com> wrote:
> The I/G bit must be cleared in the source address of an Ethernet frame.
>
> Ref: IEEE 802.3-2002, Section 3.2.3(b)

I'm finding out more about what this firewall vendor is actually
trying to do. From what I can gather, it's based on Microsoft Network
Load Balancing and it requires static MAC address table and ARP
entries.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_configuration_example09186a0080a07203.shtml#mm


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