On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Andrej van der Zee wrote:
>> If they're *not* bit-for-bit identical, and, for example, the source or destination MAC addresses differ, you might be able to use that.
>
> I forgot to mention that from IP-level the packets are identical.
And, I assume, at the Ethernet level they're *not* identical, presumably by having different source and/or destination MAC addresses.
> I am
> just trying to understand first how one IP address can be mapped to
> multiple Ethernet II MAC-addresses.
By having a machine with multiple network interfaces on the same LAN segment and having its ARP implementation spit out different MAC addresses to different clients as a form of load balancing? :-)
Or by having the switch do other weird stuff internally? What's the switch set up to do that causes it to duplicate the packets? What is it doing to the MAC addresses?
