Re: r8169 mac address change (was Re: [0/3] 2.6.19-rc2: known regressions)

Oleg Verych
2006-10-30T13:03:03Z

On 2006-10-29, Francois Romieu wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> :
> [regression related to r8169 MAC address change]
>> Francois ? Jeff ?
>
> Go revert it.
>
> Despite what I claimed, I can not find a third-party confirmation by email
> that it works elsewhere.

It works for me:
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|root@flower:/home/olecom# ip l set eth0 addr 00:00:00:00:00:02
|root@flower:/home/olecom# ip l set eth0 addr 00:00:00:00:00:03
|root@flower:/home/olecom# ip l set eth0 addr 00:00:00:00:00:04
|root@flower:/home/olecom# ip l set eth0 addr 04:44:44:44:44:04
|root@flower:/home/olecom# ip l show
|1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
| link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
| 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
| link/ether 04:44:44:44:44:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
|root@flower:/home/olecom# lspci -v | grep Realtek
| 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
|RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
|root@flower:/home/olecom#
|root@flower:/home/olecom# uname -a
|Linux flower 2.6.19-rc2-vanilla-ai #4 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 17 02:19:16
|UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
|root@flower:/home/olecom#
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