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>
@@ -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);
}