-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Jeff Dike wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:12:40PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote: >> If there are so many interfaces and they were just reordered, this could be >> caused by a (non-existant) change in link order. Or (I don't know how) it >> could derive some way from the fact that interfaces are initialized later >> (instead of __initcall, late_initcall is now used). > > No, there's a database of interface names and MAC addresses somewhere. > Distros have started making sure that ethx is always the same device > by making sure that it always has the same MAC. So when a device > shows up with a different MAC, it gets a new name. Question remains as to why the mac address was the same until 2.6.20 and is now different.
> > The easiest way to work around this is to provide a MAC on the UML > command line. Except, pcap doesn't have the option. I am looking at pcap_user.c and pcap_kern.c trying to figure out where I can add parsing for that. Antoine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGMhTmGK2zHPGK1rsRCkwAAJ0TPF5I088YhGv1QHQWhe5wmnsWwACfSLk2 e1tMjWEtWYMJDQ33vGqQUIg= =ljCV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
