Hi guys, I need a simple way lof burning new MACs to my 82599 (10 G) device. Is there a better way of doing it?
Any help is greatly appritiated. Thanks, Bhanu On Friday, December 24, 2010, y bhanu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am driving the 10 Gigabit PCI Express Intel(R) Network Card I have > with ixgbe driver I download from Intel website. > > It brings up both the devices on the Card and works fine. > > I would like to write my own MAC addresses to these devices. > I tried used the ethtool to write the MAC addresses. > both these devices come up as eth8 and eth9. > > I found that I have to use eth8 to writes MAC both(eth8 and eth9) > devices. I am using following offsets to program the MACs. Am I doing > it right? > > OFFSET1=0x33C // MAC for eth8 > OFFSET2=0x360 // MAC for eth9 > > I write each byte in a script using something like: > ethtool -E eth8 magic $magic offset $offset value 0x$value > > Any pointers are much appreciated. > > Thanks > bhanu > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
