[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next] ixgbe: Fix for RAR0 not being set to default MAC addr

Sowmini Varadhan sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com
Wed Jan 6 20:48:46 UTC 2016


On (01/06/16 12:05), Tushar Dave wrote:

> commit c9f53e63c208 ("ixgbe: Refactor MAC address configuration code")
> introduced code that doesn't set HW register RAR0 to default mac address
> but FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. Due to this, ixgbe HW discards all incoming packets
> that doesn't have destination mac address equals to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
> 
> This commit sets RAR0 correctly to default HW mac address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave at oracle.com>

Tested-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan at oracle.com>



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