Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 12:11:14 -0500 From: Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r345151 - head/sys/net Message-ID: <CACNAnaEVyHCqy6URP=zHzF-k8M%2BOr9s030GTwRurorVtHf6FnA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201903151704.x2FH4URq031149@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <51089C2A-A135-445E-B733-02654C5F8B68@lists.zabbadoz.net> <201903151704.x2FH4URq031149@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:04 PM Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > On 14 Mar 2019, at 19:48, Kyle Evans wrote: > > > > > Author: kevans > > > Date: Thu Mar 14 19:48:43 2019 > > > New Revision: 345151 > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/345151 > > > > > > Log: > > > ether_fakeaddr: Use 'b' 's' 'd' for the prefix > > > > > > This has the advantage of being obvious to sniff out the designated > > > prefix > > > by eye and it has all the right bits set. Comment stolen from ffec. > > > > > > I've removed bryanv@'s pending question of using the FreeBSD OUI > > > range -- > > > no one has followed up on this with a definitive action, and there's > > > no > > > particular reason to shoot for it and the administrative overhead > > > that comes > > > with deciding exactly how to use it. > > > > Yay. iflib_gen_mac() has already thought kind-of similar and just took > > the entire(?) FreeBSD space for doing the same. That code should be > > merged as well. > > > > Bhyve is using a good chunk from the FreeBSD allocation; see > > sys/net/ieee_oui.h also for allocation guidelines (if I don?t > > misremember). > > > > The fact that it might need figuring out should not prevent us from > > doing it right .. the third time .. maybe .. this time? > > > > epair(4) is yet another one of the cloned interfaces which does magic > > for the ethernet addresses, not sure what else. > > Yes yes yes please! Can we get the OUI assigning code collapsed to > one place, though it well need to come in dependent on a complex set > of options, or perhaps just INET and/or INET6 should drag it in. > For you and anyone else that wants to participate, I opened up https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19587 for this effort last night-ish to hash out the details. Thanks, Kyle Evans
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