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Message-Id: <200904221635.52875.inaky@linux.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:35:52 -0700
From: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@...ux.intel.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc: Mark Smith <ipng@...06e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What makes a good fake MAC address?
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:38:10 -0700
>
> > > You need a from address for the bridge to be able to populate its
> > > forwarding table. If remote end is always same, just get some random
> > > address at start of tunnel and reuse it.
> >
> > Nope, the remote end will change as you move around from base station
> > to base station :(
>
> Then don't bridge.
heh :) I'll give a try to just try an address from random_ether_addr(),
it might work
Thanks!
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Inaky
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