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authorstephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>2014-06-06 08:10:00 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-06-10 22:46:42 -0700
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gre: allow changing mac address when device is up
There is no need to require forcing device down on a Ethernet GRE (gretap) tunnel to change the MAC address. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/ip_gre.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
index c5a557a06a31..9b842544aea3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
@@ -649,6 +649,7 @@ static void ipgre_tap_setup(struct net_device *dev)
{
ether_setup(dev);
dev->netdev_ops = &gre_tap_netdev_ops;
+ dev->priv_flags |= IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE;
ip_tunnel_setup(dev, gre_tap_net_id);
}