[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/tap: add support for fixed mac addresses

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Fri Apr 14 11:45:58 CEST 2017


On 4/12/2017 8:30 AM, Pascal Mazon wrote:
> Support for a fixed MAC address for testing with the last octet
> incrementing by one for each interface defined with the new 'mac=fixed'
> string on the --vdev option. The default option is still to randomize
> the MAC address for each tap interface.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pascal Mazon <pascal.mazon at 6wind.com>
> Acked-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles at intel.com>
> ---
> 
> v2:
>   - fix spaces instead of tab in front of a return
>   - MAC address generation should happen before checking for flower support.
>     Otherwise the address could be unset with old kernels.
> 

Thanks for the patch, this will be considered for 17.08


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