Setting a trusted i40e VF down results in the MAC address changing
Issue
- Setting a trusted
i40eVF down results in the MAC address changing - If an Intel 700 series SR-IOV VF has its MAC address set by the PF and is trusted, and the VM which owns the VF sets the VF down such as
ip link set ethX down, then the VF MAC address changes to all zeroes00:00:00:00:00:00. When the VF is set up again, it gets a random MAC address, not the same MAC address as previous. This does not happen with Intel's out-of-treei40edriver.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
- Intel 700 series NIC with
i40edriver - SR-IOV Virtual Function with
iavfdriver
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