Re: r8169 ethernet bonding problems

["Tim Durack" <tdurack@gmail.com>]

> >ip link set dev eth1 promisc on
> >ip link set dev eth2 promisc off

typo, "ip link set dev eth2 promisc on" of course

>
>        From looking at the source code for r8169, but it appears that
> the r8169 driver only reads the device MAC address at probe time, and
> doesn't propogate changes to the MAC out to the device.  That might
> explain the "promisc" problem if the device also does MAC filtering.  Am
> I missing something in the driver?

I have applied all patches from the set, including:

0012-r8169-mac-address-change-support.patch

which I assume adds the ability to reprogram MAC filtering.

Behaviour indicates the MAC filter doesn't get reprogrammed though.

>        I don't actually have one of these to test with, I'm just
> looking at the source and observing that dev_addr is only ever
> referenced in the probe function, and that's only to read in the MAC
> from the device.

You're not missing much, believe me :-|

Tim:>