From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, stephen@networkplumber.org, edumazet@google.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net: allow setting mac address of loopback device
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:27:11 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140130.162711.1746399773464232016.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391038731-7501-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:38:51 -0800
> We are trying to mirror the local traffic from lo to eth0,
> allowing setting mac address of lo to eth0 would make
> the ether addresses in these packets correct, so that
> we don't have to modify the ether header again.
>
> Since usually no one cares about its mac address (all-zero),
> it is safe to allow those who care to set its mac address.
>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Please resubmit when the net-next tree opens back up.
Thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-29 23:38 [Patch net] net: allow setting mac address of loopback device Cong Wang
2014-01-30 12:04 ` Neil Horman
2014-01-30 14:42 ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-02-01 0:42 ` Cong Wang
2014-01-31 0:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-02-01 0:43 ` Cong Wang
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