[PATCH] tun: allow setting ethernet addresss while running
From: Stephen Hemminger <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-11 01:17:37
Subsystem:
networking drivers, the rest, tun/tap driver · Maintainers:
Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds, Willem de Bruijn, Jason Wang
This is a pure software device, and ok with live address change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 14a0454..2ac2164 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c@@ -849,6 +849,7 @@ static void tun_net_init(struct net_device *dev) /* Ethernet TAP Device */ ether_setup(dev); dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING; + dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE; eth_hw_addr_random(dev);
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1.7.10.4