Re: [PATCH] net/tap: Set locally administered bit with a fixed MAC address

2023-04-26 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 4/26/2023 1:39 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:58:06 -0400 > David Christensen wrote: > >> When the tap driver is loaded and the user selects the optional >> "mac=fixed" setting, the tap driver incorrectly uses a globally >> unique EUI-48 identifier (as documented in RFC

Re: [PATCH] net/tap: Set locally administered bit with a fixed MAC address

2023-04-25 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 16:58:06 -0400 David Christensen wrote: > When the tap driver is loaded and the user selects the optional > "mac=fixed" setting, the tap driver incorrectly uses a globally > unique EUI-48 identifier (as documented in RFC 7042) of > 00:64:74:61:70:. Since this is a locally gene

[PATCH] net/tap: Set locally administered bit with a fixed MAC address

2023-04-25 Thread David Christensen
When the tap driver is loaded and the user selects the optional "mac=fixed" setting, the tap driver incorrectly uses a globally unique EUI-48 identifier (as documented in RFC 7042) of 00:64:74:61:70:. Since this is a locally generated ID, the Local bit in the MAC address should be set to 1, resulti