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From: Vijayakumar Muthuvel Manickam <mmvijay@gmail.com>
To: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] KNI mac address
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:50:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADJ2ZGMt405KLZJGXWSP0suNZES+1rnNf6ZH6-22z6A6_d6RvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I see that KNI interfaces get assigned random mac addresses each time I do
"ifconfig up" on the interface. Reason for this is mac address returned by
"random_ether_addr()" is assigned to the interface in kni_net_open() for
all NIC types except igb and ixgbe that have ethtool support.

I would like to know the reason for assigning random mac address and if is
it fine to transfer the actual port mac address from userspace during
initialization by adding a field to rte_kni_device_info and assign it for
the KNI interface ?

Thanks,
Vijay

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