Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964807AbWCPSbZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:31:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932706AbWCPSbZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:31:25 -0500 Received: from mail.infrasupportetc.com ([66.173.97.5]:35283 "EHLO mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932688AbWCPSbY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:31:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address Content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:32:35 -0600 Message-ID: <925A849792280C4E80C5461017A4B8A203222D@mail733.InfraSupportEtc.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address Thread-Index: AcZJIxF17t/UTHM/QnuaH8foO0geGAABFkzA From: "Greg Scott" To: "Stephen Hemminger" , "Chris Wedgwood" Cc: "Chuck Ebbert" <76306.1226@compuserve.com>, "linux-kernel" , "David S. Miller" , , "Bart Samwel" , "Alan Cox" , "Simon Mackinlay" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1324 Lines: 36 I wonder if they would be more open to accepting that patch now? - Greg Scott -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@osdl.org] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:55 AM To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Greg Scott; Chuck Ebbert; linux-kernel; David S. Miller; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Bart Samwel; Alan Cox; Simon Mackinlay Subject: Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:07:43 -0800 Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > There still is a bug in the 3c59x driver. It doesn't include any > > code to handle changing the mac address. It will work if you take > > the device down, change address, then bring it up. But you shouldn't > > have to do that. > > I sent a patch do to this probably a year or two back and it was > rejected (by akpm if I recall) because of the argument that you could > and should take it down, change the MAC and bring it back up. > > Is this no longer a requirement? No. most drivers allow changes on the fly. - 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/