On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 16:28 -0800, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 00:17 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > I mostly use that with PPPoA, rather than PPPoEoA with the pointless MTU > > breakage that that implies. But it does work fine with BR2684 with the > > MAC address 00:00:01:00:00:00, which is what it ends up with. > > > > Do you actually *need* to set the MAC address on the br2684 link? > > > On circuits that assign an IP with DHCP, it is bound to its MAC address. > My ISP, for one, will assign multiple IP's to different MAC addresses on > the same circuit, to a point. That many zeros are not likely to pass > validation. The stock firmware increments the Ethernet MAC to get the > ATM one, which is clearly a sane thing for a DSL router to do.
Ah, right. If you're using BR2684 for IP-over-Ethernet, instead of PPPoE, then yes you're likely to need a sane MAC address. -- dwmw2
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