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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] extend the macaddr space to 0xffffffff


From: Amos Kong
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] extend the macaddr space to 0xffffffff
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:51:44 +0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 05:04:03PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:35:11PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> > Currently we only support to allocate 0xff mac-addresses,
> > if we start guest by pci-bridge/multiple-func, the macaddr
> > are not enough.
> > 
> > This patch extends the mac-address space to 0xffffffff
> > 
> > 52:54:00:00:00:00 ~ 52:54:ff:ff:ff:ff
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <address@hidden>
> 
> 
> And then there's even more chance a user error
> (forgot to specify mac) will lead to broken
> LANs because of collisions.
>
> Why is it that whoever wants >256 NICs can't just
> specify the addresses explicitly?

We should lead user to use assigned mac, those two patches
are just considered for the lazy users ;)


-- 
                        Amos.



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