>-----Original Message----- >From: Shirley Ma [mailto:mashi...@us.ibm.com] >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:51 AM >To: Rose, Gregory V >Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; da...@davemloft.net; k...@vger.kernel.org; >net...@vger.kernel.org; e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled > >On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 08:57 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: >> Just use ifconfig and vconfig utilities to set the MAC and VLAN for >> each VF. There shouldn't be any need for secondary addresses because >> they're not like physical devices where each VF has a pre-programmed >> HW MAC address. The initial MAC address of each VF is generated on >> the fly during the PF driver initialization. You can change it as you >> see fit and then put the VF on a VLAN using vconfig. After you do >> that you have a macvlan filter for that VF. > >I run macvlan test not vlan. macvlan is used to give a second MAC >address to a network adapter and see it as a new device at the higher >levels. The command is used as follow: > >ip link add link eth4 address 54:52:00:35:e3:20 macvlan2 type macvlan > >It will create an interface name macvlan2 with above MAC address. In >kernel, netdev eth4 maintains this secondary address.
Right, so what I'm saying is that if you load the VF driver it will create and <eth> interface for each VF you've created. You can assign a MAC and VLAN to that <eth> interface and will get essentially the same behavior. - Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
