On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:01:46AM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:47:35 +0100
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Some Ethernet hardware implementations have no built-in storage for
> > > allocated MAC values - an example is the Intel IXP420 chip which has
> > > support for Ethernet but no defined way of storing allocated MAC values.
> > > With such hardware different board level implementations store the
> > > allocated MAC (or MACs) in different ways. Rather than put board level
> > > c
> > Silly question:
> >
> > Why can't this be implemented in user space using the SIOCSIFHWADDR
> > ioctl?
>
> Because sometimes you need to have networking available
> well before userspace.
>
> (netconsole, root over nfs, ...)
Why can't setting MAC addresses be done from initramfs?
> Best regards,
> Alessandro Zummo,
cu
Adrian
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