On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:04:03PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:35:11PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> > Currently we only support to allocate 0xff mac-addresses,
> > if we start guest by pci-bridge/multiple-func, the macaddr
> > are not enough.
> >
> > This patch extends the mac-address space to 0xffffffff
> >
> > 52:54:00:00:00:00 ~ 52:54:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <ak...@redhat.com>
>
>
> And then there's even more chance a user error
> (forgot to specify mac) will lead to broken
> LANs because of collisions.
>
> Why is it that whoever wants >256 NICs can't just
> specify the addresses explicitly?
We should lead user to use assigned mac, those two patches
are just considered for the lazy users ;)
--
Amos.
