From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [RFC NET 00/02]: Secondary unicast address support Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:56:09 +0200 Message-ID: <467B2C39.1040208@trash.net> References: <20070620180017.6685.70611.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <467ACDE1.7070907@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, jeff@garzik.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:51532 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751502AbXFVB4g (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:56:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > For the macvlan hash you just use an upper byte. Is that just a > simple starting place, or do we not need a more complex hash. > That gave me an idea, since the default addresses are random anyway I'm now using an incrementing counter for the upper byte.