Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751897AbWCNOSf (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:18:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751939AbWCNOSe (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:18:34 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:25265 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751897AbWCNOSe (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:18:34 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= Subject: Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:16:30 +0100 Organization: De-bay old Deflagration Message-ID: <87pskp158h.fsf@obelix.mork.no> References: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A20321F2@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> <20060313100041.212cee08@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: obelix.mork.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lCXJJ67OEYlZgFIjvOgwAN7WJPo= Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 14 "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" writes: > Actually, it doesn't make any difference. Changing the IEEE station > (physical) address is not an allowed procedure even though hooks are > available in many drivers to do this. Of course it is. It's even required to support some obsolete networking protocols. You could start with Documentation/networking/decnet.txt if you don't want to STFW Bj?rn -- I mean, you're always totally wrong. - 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/