Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751661AbWCLSIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:08:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751682AbWCLSIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:08:23 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:19076 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751661AbWCLSIX (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:08:23 -0500 Subject: RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address From: Alan Cox To: Greg Scott Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bart Samwel In-Reply-To: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A20321DD@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> References: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A20321DD@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:14:13 +0000 Message-Id: <1142187253.20056.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 16 On Sul, 2006-03-12 at 09:34 -0600, Greg Scott wrote: > Bart and I had a private discussion about this. I was able to prove > that routing stops when "fudged" MAC Addresses on the router don't match > the hardware MAC Addresses. And routing starts back up again when the I > change the "fudged" MAC Addresses back to match the hardware MAC > Addresses. Which driver, and does it occur with other drivers. Also you really want to move this to netdev@oss.sgi.com to get the best network folks to see it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/