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Message-ID: <20200415113800.134f2530@strong.id.au>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:38:00 +1000
From: Russell Strong <russell@...ong.id.au>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vxlan mac address generation
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:23:48 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:05:24 +1000
> Russell Strong <russell@...ong.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > I've hit a problem with vxlan not communicating because mac
> > addresses being duplicated when I use the same IFNAME across
> > multiple virtual machines. The mac address appears to be some sort
> > of hash related to the IFNAME. Changing the name changes the mac
> > address.
> >
> > Looking at vxlan_setup this should be random (eth_hw_addr_random)
> > but it is not.
> >
> > Is there a bug here?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Russell Strong
>
> Please forward questions to netdev@...r.kernel.org.
> Do you have weak seeding on your platform? This happens early in boot
> process and maybe PRNG is not seeded yet.
I have checked the diff of /var/lib/systemd/random-seed. Each machine
has a different seed. Plus each machine has been running for a long
period of time. They are however, cloned from the same source machine
wayback.
As an example, if I execute the following commands
ip link add v0 type vxlan id 1
I get the mac address 6e:7a:da:1c:12:0c
then delete and recreate,
ip link del v0
ip link add v0 type vxlan id 1
I get back the same address 6e:7a:da:1c:12:0c
I would have expected a different mac as the PRNG should have
advanced. Also, if I change v0 to something else, I get a different mac
address but the same repeatability.
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