From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez Subject: Re: What makes a good fake MAC address? Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:52 -0700 Message-ID: <200904221635.52875.inaky@linux.intel.com> References: <20090423070442.1e643b5b.ipng@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org> <200904221538.10964.inaky@linux.intel.com> <20090422155909.0d2fdffd@s6510> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Smith , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from mga10.intel.com ([192.55.52.92]:2650 "EHLO fmsmga102.fm.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750755AbZDVXfw (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:35:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090422155909.0d2fdffd@s6510> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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