On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:33:29AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mira Ressel
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 16:29:01 +
>
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:28:57AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Mira Ressel
> >> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:20:00 +
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:28:57AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mira Ressel
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:20:00 +
>
> > I'm setting the peer->perm_addr, which would otherwise be zero, to its
> > dev_addr, which has been either generated randomly by the kernel or
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:25:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mira Ressel
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 14:38:26 +
>
> > Set the perm_addr of veth devices to whatever MAC has been assigned to
> > the device. Otherwise, it remains all zero,
address.
This has the added benefit of giving vlan devices the same link-local
address as their parent device, which is common practice, and indeed
precisely what happens automatically if the default eui64-based address
generation is used.
Signed-off-by: Mira Ressel
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net/8021q/vlan_netlink.c | 2
link-local address.
The new behaviour matches that of several other virtual interface types
(such as gre), and as far as I can tell, perm_addr isn't used by any
other code sites that are relevant to veth.
Signed-off-by: Mira Ressel
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drivers/net/veth.c | 4
1 file changed, 4 insertions
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