I've been meaning to bring this up.
A lot of cards that support multiple MAC addresses
in hardware provide pre-cooked lists of alternate
MAC addresses. This is either done via EEPROM,
NVRAM, or OpenFirmware device properties.
For example, the Sun Neptune cards can provide an
array of up to 16 a
David Miller wrote:
I've been meaning to bring this up.
A lot of cards that support multiple MAC addresses
in hardware provide pre-cooked lists of alternate
MAC addresses. This is either done via EEPROM,
NVRAM, or OpenFirmware device properties.
For example, the Sun Neptune cards can provide a
Jeff Garzik wrote:
h. Using ethtool isn't a big deal, but IMO you probably want more
than just an exported list for the usage you described... it sounds
like some sort of reservation system should be used, to note which MAC
addresses are [not] in use?
Then a virt client -- or anyone who
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:25:05 -0400
> h. Using ethtool isn't a big deal, but IMO you probably want more
> than just an exported list for the usage you described... it sounds
> like some sort of reservation system should be used, to note which MAC
>
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 20:22 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> However, it's not the virt clients that do this, it's the control
> node (aka: domain 0) which has to manage these things.
>
> It has to manage all of the global hardware resources and allocate
> them out to itself and the clients anyways.
David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:25:05 -0400
>
>> h. Using ethtool isn't a big deal, but IMO you probably want more
>> than just an exported list for the usage you described... it sounds
>> like some sort of reserv
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Duplicate mac addresses across interfaces on the same machine
should generally be a don't care. Although there may some
cases we don't mind.
What might the switches think of that? Outside of the context of a
link-aggregate I would think that could do some unhappy thi
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Duplicate mac addresses across interfaces on the same machine
>> should generally be a don't care. Although there may some
>> cases we don't mind.
>
> What might the switches think of that? Outside of the context of a
> link-ag
