On Monday 04 September 2006 21:23, Nic James Ferrier wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I beg to differ. Here is some mac-addresses which I have on my > > running umls and their respective ip: > > > > fe:fd:ac:10:2a:0d 172.16.42.13 > > fe:fd:c0:a8:02:04 192.168.2.4 > > fe:fd:ac:10:2a:0a 172.16.42.10 > > fe:fd:c0:a8:02:02 192.168.2.2 > > > > The parameter for these interface has been "ethx=tuntap,xxx" and I > > haven't set mac address on guest side. > > Ok. I haven't seen this behaviour and I haven't checked the code for > the tuntap driver. > > Clearly it does work sometimes! > > >> The only comprehensive solution that I can see is a network wide mac > >> allocator or a dhcp client that can somehow set the mac on a dhcp > >> response. This latter option is possible because dhcp _is_ > >> extensible. I haven't had the time to hack on it though. > > > > Yes, it could be done but it would need that guest is able to change > > its own mac address, right? > > Sure. But you can do that, right? As long as you specify one to start > with you can change it later? You should be able to change it always, otherwise there's a bug in the code.
> So the idea would be to have dhcp look at the mac and if it was the > startup mac (say: fe:fd:00:00:00:00) then issue a mac from a pool that > dhcp maintains and change it. > > This could _probably_ be done with ISC DHCP client/server without > changing the code (or at least the C). That could be interesting... -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
