On 12/08/2012 12:18 PM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
Hi Peter,
What I don't see is a way to coordinate this with connman, which
immediately brings up the eth0 interface as soon as the kernel
publishes its existence regardless of whether it's actually ready to
be configured. I see several options: *
Hi Peter,
> >>> I believe you can set the MAC address from the bootloader if this
> >>> is an option?
> >> AFAIK you can't. In earlier versions of OpenEmbedded the kernel
> >> (3.0.0 at the time) had been patched to provide the MAC address
> >> through a module parameter, but the patch was reject
On 12/08/2012 07:46 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
Personally I think assigning a random MAC address in the driver
is...unwise. I can't imagine having any success getting that
changed, though, especially now that addr_assign_type is used
properly.
Address assignment isn't "random" as such - it's using the
On 12/08/2012 06:55 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
On 08.12.2012 13:27, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
Is external manipulation of that file (including installing it at the
time a system is provisioned) consistent with how connman configuration
is to be done, or do you expect all such changes to come through
> Personally I think assigning a random MAC address in the driver
> is...unwise. I can't imagine having any success getting that
> changed, though, especially now that addr_assign_type is used
> properly.
Address assignment isn't "random" as such - it's using the ranges
specified for local alloc
> > of /var/lib/connman/settings had no effect; connman still brought
> > eth0 up.
>
> Unfortunately, the AutoConnect setting is per device and stored under
> /var/lib/connman/ethernet_MAC_ADDR_cable/settings.
Thats a fundamental breakage because
- MAC addresses are only required to be unique *
On 08.12.2012 13:27, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
> On 12/08/2012 04:04 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
>> On 08.12.2012 01:15, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
>>> The second alternative also requires a way to tell connman that a wired
>>> interface is to be enabled but not autoconfigured. I haven't found
>>> anything to
On 12/08/2012 04:04 AM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
On 08.12.2012 01:15, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
The second alternative also requires a way to tell connman that a wired
interface is to be enabled but not autoconfigured. I haven't found
anything to do that. The documentation (config-format.txt) suggests
On 08.12.2012 11:04, Daniel Wagner wrote:
How would this be done if I wanted to statically assign network
configuration data to an interface that had a fixed MAC address? Have
something install /var/lib/connman/ethernet_(macaddr)_cable/settings?
Maybe we could add something to the ethernet plug
On 08.12.2012 01:15, Peter A. Bigot wrote:
> I see several options:
>
> * I can have the user-space program wait until connman has brought the
> interface up, then take the interface back down again, correct its
> configuration, and re-enable it;
>
> * I could configure connman to not bring up
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