Re: Emulating multiple nics with one

Does anybody have an idea how to do what I am attempting?

All I basically want to do is emulate multiple nic's (each with it's
own mac address) using one nic. Then I can create routing tables that
use these multiple emulated nics, but all traffic is routed through
one nic. I can do the latter half (routing), but cannot figure out how
to do the first part (emulating multiple nics using one).

Cheers,
Loban


On Oct 11, 3:24 pm, Mambazo <loban.rah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is my existing setup:
One computer with 3 nics, each with a unique mac address. All the nics
are connected to a hub, which in turn is connected to my ISP's local
area network. My ISP has a dhcp server (at 192.168.11.1), which
assigns an ip address to each of the 3 nics based on their mac
addresses. They are given ip's 192.168.10.172,173,174, all with
gateway 192.168.10.1 and netmask 255.255.255.0. I've set up a custom
routing table that routes all my outgoing traffic (web, downloads,
etc) across the 3 lines based on a few rules. The reason is that each
line has a specific bandwidth limit (say for example 10KB/s), and by
using 3 I can get a greater bandwidth (by splitting my downloads).

NOW I want to have the functionally same setup as above, but using
only one physical nic instead of 3. I'm assuming I'll be setting up
virtual nics (each with their own mac's cloned from the former
physical nics), and they will use dhcp to get an ip. Then I can refer
to the virtual nics in my routing tables.

Is this possible? And how? I researched into using the dummy interface
and bridging it with my physical nic, but I just couldn't get it
working.

Cheers,
Loban


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