On 03/01/2018 01:44 PM, Michael Brown wrote: > On 05/02/18 08:36, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >> If the MAC address is empty we should not construct an EUI-64 >> identifier, but rather return an error. > > An empty MAC address will cause other problems. If the driver expects > the possibility of an empty MAC address, it should be using > eth_random_addr() to construct a locally-assigned address. > > Which driver ended up providing an empty MAC address? > igbvf.
And ixgbevf will probably have the same problem. For both you are required to set the MAC address prior to usa via the ip link set dev <eth> vf <num> mac <mac> trick. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
