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From: "Zhang, Helin" <helin.zhang@intel.com>
To: Alex Markuze <alex@weka.io>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] KNI hw Address.
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 04:56:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F35DEAC7BCE34641BA9FAC6BCA4A12E70A74A0DD@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKfHP0UQs4kg5bqfVgFvzvF-ObRmvxcYqU6k52oJ8ewh3Sa5QA@mail.gmail.com>


> -----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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks
> Alex

Hi Alex

No way without modifying the code. Two ways can be taken into account as below.

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.

Regards,
Helin

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-03  4:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02 15:57 Alex Markuze
2014-07-03  4:56 ` Zhang, Helin [this message]
2014-07-03  5:05   ` Padam J. Singh
2014-07-03  6:22     ` Zhang, Helin
2014-07-03  7:06       ` Alex Markuze

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