From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Mark Smith <ipng@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What makes a good fake MAC address?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200904221635.52875.inaky@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422155909.0d2fdffd@s6510>
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:38:10 -0700
>
> > > You need a from address for the bridge to be able to populate its
> > > forwarding table. If remote end is always same, just get some random
> > > address at start of tunnel and reuse it.
> >
> > Nope, the remote end will change as you move around from base station
> > to base station :(
>
> Then don't bridge.
heh :) I'll give a try to just try an address from random_ether_addr(),
it might work
Thanks!
--
Inaky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-22 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 21:34 What makes a good fake MAC address? Mark Smith
2009-04-22 22:15 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2009-04-22 22:25 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-22 22:38 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2009-04-22 22:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-22 23:35 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez [this message]
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2009-04-22 20:48 Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2009-04-22 21:13 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-04-22 21:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-04-22 21:28 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
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