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From: Andriy Berestovskyy <aber@semihalf.com>
To: Sushil Adhikari <sushil446@gmail.com>
Cc: users <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] Setting real MAC address in KNI application
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 12:42:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOysbxrME0EnNtaXFaqZeDf5AnNiGbEV37iY8r8DSOYNWcXDwQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPO9LfT+8q8AWeuGrER8qxAn9yyN9thJ+8p2zDhJcUm0nCJk8Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Suchil,
Just add a MAC to your /etc/network/interfaces:

iface kni0 inet static
hwaddress 10:20:30:40:50:60

Regards,
Andriy


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Sushil Adhikari <sushil446@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I run the DPDK KNI application it gives random mac address to the
> ethernet ports. How can I configure it to set up the real MAC address of
> the hardware(ethernet ports)? It seems like I can get mac address by
> calling rte_eth_macaddr_get but to set up I need to call kni_net_set_mac
> which takes in net_device structure which again I don't have access to from
> my application. Is there a way to set up the mac address of dpdk ports to
> its original mac address in kni application.



-- 
Andriy Berestovskyy

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-17 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-16 17:10 Sushil Adhikari
2017-05-17 10:42 ` Andriy Berestovskyy [this message]
2017-05-17 19:47   ` Sushil Adhikari

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