> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:and...@lunn.ch] > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 12:23 PM > To: Limonciello, Mario <mario_limoncie...@dell.com> > Cc: pali.ro...@gmail.com; gre...@linuxfoundation.org; > da...@davemloft.net; hayesw...@realtek.com; linux- > ker...@vger.kernel.org; net...@vger.kernel.org; linux- > u...@vger.kernel.org; anthony.w...@canonical.com > Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] r8152: Add support for setting pass through MAC > address on RTL8153-AD > > > > It is same, how to handle two network cards which tell us, that they > > > have same MAC addresses. > > > > > > > The kernel handles this just fine. In doing this patch I checked to see > > what it does in that scenario. Two devices are made. systemd doesn't > > rename the second device via the MAC name (eg enxAABBCCDDEEFF). > > What does you dhcp server do? Does it gives out the same IP address? > You then have two interfaces on the same network, with the same MAC > address and IP address. Then what happens? > > Andrew
I didn't test it on the same network, I used two separate networks. I expect that the DHCP server would be awfully confused and you'd run down an interesting problem path if it got the same MAC twice. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
