[dpdk-users] DPDK: KNI Random MAC generation

[Shawn Lewis]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
wrote:

> On 5/10/2016 8:22 AM, SAKTHIVEL ANAND S wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I know by default KNI will generate random MAC address for newly created
> > interfaces. But Is there any way to disable random MAC generation? i am
> > using VMXNET3 type Ethernet device.
> >
>
> Hi Sakthivel,
>
> For supported drivers (igb, ixgbe) KNI gets the MAC address from device,
> but for rest it generates random address, this is not configurable.
>
> Regards,
> ferruh
>


You can though change it thru lower level network IO or simply thru
ifconfig back to the hardware ID though.