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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] KNI hw Address.
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Zhang, Alex,

Please see the patch I had submitted a few days back which allows =
setting the MAC address using=20

ifconfig ... hw ether MAC-ADDRESS

An "ifconfig DEV up" , followed by this sets the MAC address.

Thanks,
Padam

On 03-Jul-2014, at 10:26 am, Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang@intel.com> wrote:

>=20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alex Markuze
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:57 PM
>> To: dev@dpdk.org
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] KNI hw Address.
>>=20
>> Hi, I'm playing with KNI on a VM (kvm), the Interface that is created =
has no
>> MAC address until the IP is set via ifconfig  - then a random mac is =
created.
>> The VF has a mac address that is easily retrieved with =
rte_eth_macaddr_get.
>>=20
>> What I did not find is a way to create the KNI with that specific mac =
address
>> enabled.
>> What are the ways to set the KNI mac address?
>>=20
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>=20
> Hi Alex
>=20
> No way without modifying the code. Two ways can be taken into account =
as below.
>=20
> 1. Implement ndo_set_mac in KNI kernel module to set the MAC address.
> 2. Add mac address as one more parameters in user space KNI interface, =
to tell the kernel module the mac during kni device creation.
>=20
> Regards,
> Helin