On 2006-11-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-11-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2006-11-05, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I call the ethernet driver's control function to set the
>>> MAC address?
>>
>> This seems to work:
>>
>>
>> __local_enet_sc->funs->control(__local_enet_sc,ETH_DRV_SET_MAC_ADDRESS,mac_address,sizeof
>> mac_address);
>
> I was wrong, that doesn't work. It changes the MAC address in
> the MAC, but the networks stack doesn't seem to know it's been
> changed, so ARP replies have the wrong MAC address in them. :(
Also setting __local_enet_addr fixed that problem.
>> How is the MAC address supposed to be set initially?
AFAICT, RedBoot expects the Ethernet MAC driver to know what
MAC to use without any "application" layer help. How is the
driver supposed to know what MAC address to use?
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