Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:54:07 +0530 | From | "Prasanta Sadhukhan" <> | Subject | Re: setting LAA in token ring |
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Mike Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0530 or sometime in the same epoch, Prasanta Sadhukhan scribbled: > > Hi, > > Our cardbus driver supports LAA but when > > we are giving this command 'ifconfig tr0 hw tr 4000DEADBEEF' but we are > > getting > > SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument > > > > Is there any prerequisites fot this command to be given? > > > > There is a requirement for certain bit in the MSB to be set, bit 6 of 7 > iirc. > > Also, there is an issue with ifconfig and TR. During the 2.3 dev kernels > we changed the IEEE type of TR from 6 to a value in the 800 range. This > was done when multicast support was added as we needed to split out TR > from the other 802 protocols. > > ifconfig and friends didn't realize this and barf because the return > type is wrong. I've tried submitting patches to net-tools for this > several times, but it wasn't fixed. It may be by now, but don't quote me > on it.
But the LAA feature was working in RH 7.1 which is kernel 2.4.2-2 So why suddenly this feature is returning Invalid argument in 7.2 7.3 and 8.0. Does it mean SIOCSIFHWADDR is not supported in the kernel
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