On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > OVS doesn't currently support MAC addresses longer than 6 bytes. You > are the first person to ask about them, so there is no workaround. > > Does the Linux bridge support 20-byte MAC addresses?
AFAICT no. I've tried using "bridge" networking with XCP but it behaves the same way as with Open vSwtich, but I've not looked at the documentation or source code. > > I don't think that changing ETH_ADDR_LEN will help. Yeah, that's my feeling as well. Do you have any idea how hard it will be to support this? If someone can give me a few hint about the requirements I'd like to take a shot at implementing support for this. My understanding is that an IPOIB device is no different from a normal Ethernet device from the application perspective. If the only functionality needed is 20-byte MAC addresses I believe it should be achievable. Thanks! Trygve -- HypoBytes Ltd. Trygve Sanne Hardersen Akersveien 24F 0177 Oslo Norway hypobytes.com +47 40 55 30 25 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
