From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: pavel@pavlinux.ru
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:47:58 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497F3ABE.5000300@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901271633.48839.paul@codesourcery.com>
Paul Brook wrote:
>> + if (strstr(p, "macrandom")) {
>>
>
> I'm not convinced this is a useful feature.
>
> We already allow the user to specify a mac address, so this feature can be
> trivially implemented (and better supported) by a management app or simple
> shell script.
>
> In addition to the issues other people have raised, there's no validation that
> the random value is actually a valid mac address, and no conflict resolution
> to avoid duplicate addresses when multiple NICs are present.
>
I agree. It gives a false sense of security.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Paul
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-27 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 0:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option Pavel Vasilyev
2009-01-27 0:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Replace strcmp() by strncmp() Pavel Vasilyev
2009-01-27 9:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-01-27 20:49 ` Pavel Vasilyev
2009-01-27 21:20 ` Pavel Vasilyev
2009-01-27 0:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Random MAC address option malc
2009-01-27 10:05 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-01-27 10:15 ` Riku Voipio
2009-01-27 10:25 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-27 14:28 ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-27 20:51 ` Pavel Vasilyev
2009-01-27 16:33 ` Paul Brook
2009-01-27 16:47 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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