From patchwork Tue Dec 11 01:16:00 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: tun: allow setting ethernet addresss while running From: stephen hemminger X-Patchwork-Id: 205112 Message-Id: <1355188560-8388-1-git-send-email-shemminger@vyatta.com> To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:16:00 -0800 This is a pure software device, and ok with live address change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- 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);