Zhang, Alex, Please see the patch I had submitted a few days back which allows setting the MAC address using
ifconfig ... hw ether MAC-ADDRESS An "ifconfig DEV up" , followed by this sets the MAC address. Thanks, Padam On 03-Jul-2014, at 10:26 am, Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang at intel.com> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Alex Markuze >> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 11:57 PM >> To: dev at dpdk.org >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] KNI hw Address. >> >> Hi, I'm playing with KNI on a VM (kvm), the Interface that is created has no >> MAC address until the IP is set via ifconfig - then a random mac is created. >> The VF has a mac address that is easily retrieved with rte_eth_macaddr_get. >> >> What I did not find is a way to create the KNI with that specific mac address >> enabled. >> What are the ways to set the KNI mac address? >> >> Thanks >> Alex > > Hi Alex > > No way without modifying the code. Two ways can be taken into account as > below. > > 1. Implement ndo_set_mac in KNI kernel module to set the MAC address. > 2. Add mac address as one more parameters in user space KNI interface, to > tell the kernel module the mac during kni device creation. > > Regards, > Helin
