From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: "'Andrew Lunn'" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Rodney Cummings <rodney.cummings@ni.com>
Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kernel@savoirfairelinux.com" <kernel@savoirfairelinux.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: dsa: remove .set_addr
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:30:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6DD00980E8@AcuExch.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171016160941.GA13339@lunn.ch>
From: Andrew Lunn
> Sent: 16 October 2017 17:10
...
> So, received Pause frames never leave the MAC. They don't get bridged,
> nor do they get passed up for host processing. They are purely point
> to point between two MAC peers. The destination is unambiguous. It is
> simple the other MAC peer. The destination address makes it clear it
> is a pause frame, the the source address seems to be unneeded.
>
> In this context, a random MAC addresses are safe.
Is there any reason why a fixed value (say 00:00:00:00:00:00)
can't be used?
> In the more general case, i would agree with you. Collisions are
> possible, causing problems.
For IP MAC addresses only go as far as the first router.
So the duplicates would (typically) have to be within the same subnet.
This makes the chance of a duplicate random address unlikely.
(Unless you have an un-subnetted class A network consisting of
multiple 1km long coax segments connected by 1km long repeaters
making a single collision domain.)
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-16 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-13 18:18 [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] net: dsa: remove .set_addr Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/5] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: setup random mac address Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/5] net: dsa: mv88e6060: fix switch MAC address Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/5] net: dsa: mv88e6060: setup random mac address Vivien Didelot
2017-10-16 9:05 ` David Laight
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/5] net: dsa: dsa_loop: remove .set_addr Vivien Didelot
2017-10-13 18:18 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/5] net: dsa: " Vivien Didelot
2017-10-15 1:30 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/5] " David Miller
2017-10-16 15:23 ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-10-16 16:28 ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:47 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-10-16 16:52 ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:57 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-10-16 18:14 ` Rodney Cummings
2017-10-16 16:30 ` David Laight [this message]
2017-10-16 16:44 ` Andrew Lunn
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