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@ 2015-06-19  5:50 Vijayakumar Muthuvel Manickam
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From: Vijayakumar Muthuvel Manickam @ 2015-06-19  5:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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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