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* [dpdk-users] DPDK: KNI Random MAC generation
@ 2016-05-10  7:22 SAKTHIVEL ANAND S
  2016-05-10 14:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: SAKTHIVEL ANAND S @ 2016-05-10  7:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: users

Hi

I know by default KNI will generate random MAC address for newly created
interfaces. But Is there any way to disable random MAC generation? i am
using VMXNET3 type Ethernet device.

Thanks
Sakthivel S OM

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* Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK: KNI Random MAC generation
  2016-05-10  7:22 [dpdk-users] DPDK: KNI Random MAC generation SAKTHIVEL ANAND S
@ 2016-05-10 14:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
  2016-05-10 14:43   ` Shawn Lewis
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ferruh Yigit @ 2016-05-10 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: SAKTHIVEL ANAND S, users

On 5/10/2016 8:22 AM, SAKTHIVEL ANAND S wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I know by default KNI will generate random MAC address for newly created
> interfaces. But Is there any way to disable random MAC generation? i am
> using VMXNET3 type Ethernet device.
> 

Hi Sakthivel,

For supported drivers (igb, ixgbe) KNI gets the MAC address from device,
but for rest it generates random address, this is not configurable.

Regards,
ferruh

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* Re: [dpdk-users] DPDK: KNI Random MAC generation
  2016-05-10 14:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
@ 2016-05-10 14:43   ` Shawn Lewis
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Shawn Lewis @ 2016-05-10 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ferruh Yigit; +Cc: SAKTHIVEL ANAND S, users

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
wrote:

> On 5/10/2016 8:22 AM, SAKTHIVEL ANAND S wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I know by default KNI will generate random MAC address for newly created
> > interfaces. But Is there any way to disable random MAC generation? i am
> > using VMXNET3 type Ethernet device.
> >
>
> Hi Sakthivel,
>
> For supported drivers (igb, ixgbe) KNI gets the MAC address from device,
> but for rest it generates random address, this is not configurable.
>
> Regards,
> ferruh
>


You can though change it thru lower level network IO or simply thru
ifconfig back to the hardware ID though.

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