RE: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

["Greg Scott" <GregScott@InfraSupportEtc.com>]

I wonder if they would be more open to accepting that patch now?

- Greg Scott
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@osdl.org] 
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:55 AM
To: Chris Wedgwood
Cc: Greg Scott; Chuck Ebbert; linux-kernel; David S. Miller;
netdev@vger.kernel.org; Bart Samwel; Alan Cox; Simon Mackinlay
Subject: Re: Router stops routing after changing MAC Address

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:07:43 -0800
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:00:41AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> > There still is a bug in the 3c59x driver.  It doesn't include any 
> > code to handle changing the mac address.  It will work if you take 
> > the device down, change address, then bring it up. But you shouldn't

> > have to do that.
> 
> I sent a patch do to this probably a year or two back and it was 
> rejected (by akpm if I recall) because of the argument that you could 
> and should take it down, change the MAC and bring it back up.
> 
> Is this no longer a requirement?

No. most drivers allow changes on the fly.
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