Re: USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-24 Thread Nicolas Cavallari
Johny Tenfinger wrote : On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:05, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr wrote: This worked fine during the usb0 phase. But since the distro started using the official MAC address, This wouldn't work anymore. Which distro? In SHR-unstable it should be fixed for long time,

Re: USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-24 Thread Johny Tenfinger
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 16:34, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr wrote: I don't want to try SHR-unstable right now (i use my FR as my main phone), but hacking the g_ether.sh script to do the same thing also fix the problem. Well, for me SHR-unstable is more usable as daily phone than

USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-23 Thread Nicolas Cavallari
For a while, I used to use USB networking to connect my FR to the interwebs. I wanted to be able to connect my moko to any computer and let my entire LAN talk to it, so instead of using masquerading or routing, i used the much simpler bridge mechanism, to bridge my FR with my network. This

Re: USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-23 Thread Johny Tenfinger
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:05, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr wrote: This worked fine during the usb0 phase. But since the distro started using the official MAC address, This wouldn't work anymore. Which distro? In SHR-unstable it should be fixed for long time, but in others, where kernel

Re: USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-23 Thread Nicolas Cavallari
Johny Tenfinger a écrit : On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:05, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr wrote: This worked fine during the usb0 phase. But since the distro started using the official MAC address, This wouldn't work anymore. Which distro? In SHR-unstable it should be fixed for long

Re: USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-23 Thread Johny Tenfinger
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 19:33, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr wrote: Johny Tenfinger a écrit : On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 17:05, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr wrote: This worked fine during the usb0 phase. But since the distro started using the official MAC address, This wouldn't work

Re: USB networking MAC regression (aka the usb0 - eth0 change)

2009-05-23 Thread Paul Fertser
Hi, Nicolas Cavallari batch...@free.fr writes: For a while, I used to use USB networking to connect my FR to the interwebs. [snip] The bridge fails because it consider the host mac address to be a local mac (brctl showmacs) and so ignore any host with the same mac. Changing the host mac