[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If your distro, instead of doing: > ifconfig eth0 up > ifconfig eth0 <address>, does > ifconfig eth0 <address>, then UML will decide the Mac address based on the IP > address (will be FE:FD:<ip address in hex, maybe reversed>).
Has any thought been given to just choosing a random mac? I haven't looked closely, but it seems like that's what the tuntap driver does on the host. You'd just need to make sure you don't end up with a broadcast mac or something. And if you want to make sure not to conflict with "official" mac addresses on real hardware, you could have it set the Locally Administered bit: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/groupmac/tutorial.html It would seem that just assigning a mostly-random 48 bits would be less likely to cause trouble than the current fe:fd:00:00:00:00 scheme, which bites people now and then. Jason ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
