Venet : add virtual Mac Address

[mwolff]

Hello,

I need to have a MAC address on my VE. I do not use veth but venet that can not handle mac address.
Is exist any way for adding an virtual mac address ?

Thanks

Matt

 

[tom]

Hello,

I need to have a MAC address on my VE. I do not use veth but venet that can not handle mac address.
Is exist any way for adding an virtual mac address ?

Thanks

Matt

why do you need that? pls provide the whole story.

 

[mwolff]

I want to migrate a soft that i use on one of physical server to VPS. And this soft use MAC authentification.

 

[tom]

I want to migrate a soft that i use on one of physical server to VPS. And this soft use MAC authentification.

easiest is KVM, then veth. if you go for venet you need to fake something but this depends on how this check is done.

 

[mwolff]

I would like to stay in venet mode (for firewalling), and my soft run on debian.
That i know about checking. I have change the soft one server to another because of motherboard failure. I have manually changed the mac address of an interface that i do not use, and it works well. (Prehaps, there are other checks via internet juste to verify that only one server use the soft, i don't know.)
My idea is to create a virtual interface and to affect to it my mac address. But i do not know how to do it.

matt

 

[mwolff]

Any idea ?

 

[tom]

Any idea ?

already answered, what do you miss?

 

[mwolff]

I understand that it is easy to do it in veth. But i have to stay in veneth mode.
You talk about that it is possible with venet, but i know how to do that. Could you explain me ?

 

[dietmar]

You talk about that it is possible with venet, but i know how to do that. Could you explain me ?

venet does not have a mac, so it is not possible.

 

[mwolff]

yes I know. Does it exist an virtual interface where i can assign a mac address ?

 

[dietmar]

yes I know. Does it exist an virtual interface where i can assign a mac address ?

You can try to add an additional veth device (see 'man vzctl')