Re: Updated: Enabling tap interfaces in pfinet

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:37:50 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.bugs
Organization I am not organized
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Ralph Ronnquist, le jeu. 30 juil. 2026 09:16:41 +1000, a ecrit:
> Fair enough. I've attached the merged patch here, and then took the
> opportunity to fix up the tap mac address logic as well.
> 
> There's still a problem in using a direct mapping of the tap name to
> mac address since then a virtual cable between two hosts will require
> there being differently named taps. Perhaps it really needs an
> additional pfnet argument for that.

We could as well just use a random address? Linux seems to be doing
that.

Samuel