Thanks Stephen, But, I want to write these MACS to be permanently written so that I wouldn't have to do it everytime I boot or unload/load these drivers. I am writing these MACS currently with ethtool now and writing these MACS to 0x33C & 0x360 offsets. I have have trouble to get it work on some new Cards with the same deviceID.
I need some advice on how to write new MACS of the 82599 Card from linux. It is very important that I do it right because the same utility will be used to write production boxes. Any help is very much appropriated Thanks, Bhanu On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ko, Stephen S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bhanu, > > Similar goal can be achieved by ifconfig: > > ifconfig eth8 down > ifconfig eth8 hw ether <your address> > ifconfig eth8 up > > Is there a particular reason why you are trying to do this in EEPROM? > > Thanks, > Stephen > > -----Original Message----- > From: y bhanu [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 8:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] 82599 ixgbe+ ethtool MAC address offsets > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
