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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Rodney Cummings <rodney.cummings@ni.com>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kernel@savoirfairelinux.com" <kernel@savoirfairelinux.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: dsa: remove .set_addr
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:44:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171016164403.GC13339@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DD00980E8@AcuExch.aculab.com>

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 04:30:34PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Andrew Lunn
> > Sent: 16 October 2017 17:10
> ...
> > So, received Pause frames never leave the MAC. They don't get bridged,
> > nor do they get passed up for host processing. They are purely point
> > to point between two MAC peers. The destination is unambiguous. It is
> > simple the other MAC peer. The destination address makes it clear it
> > is a pause frame, the the source address seems to be unneeded.
> > 
> > In this context, a random MAC addresses are safe.
> 
> Is there any reason why a fixed value (say 00:00:00:00:00:00)
> can't be used?

I was going to suggest 42:42:42:42:42:42 :-)

  Andrew

      reply	other threads:[~2017-10-16 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-13 18:18 [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: dsa: remove .set_addr Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: setup random mac address Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/5] net: dsa: mv88e6060: fix switch MAC address Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/5] net: dsa: mv88e6060: setup random mac address Vivien Didelot
2017-10-16  9:05   ` David Laight
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net: dsa: dsa_loop: remove .set_addr Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: dsa: " Vivien Didelot
2017-10-15  1:30 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] " David Miller
2017-10-16 15:23 ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:09   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-10-16 16:28     ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:47       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-10-16 16:52         ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:57           ` Andrew Lunn
2017-10-16 18:14             ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:30     ` David Laight
2017-10-16 16:44       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]

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