Ben Greear wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >>> For the macvlan hash you just use an upper byte. Is that just a >>> simple starting place, or do we not need a more complex hash. >>> >> >> >> That gave me an idea, since the default addresses are random >> anyway I'm now using an incrementing counter for the upper byte. > > > Is there not a (relatively) easy way to hash the entire 6 bytes? > > I'd prefer to be able to set the MACs to anything I want, without > worrying about trivially hitting a worst-case hash scenario.
That would only happen if all your addresses have the same high byte. I can't see a reason why you would want to do this, even with manually configured addresses its still reasonable to expect a uniform distribution. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
