From: Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:10:06 +0200 > The firmware in several ZTE devices (at least the MF823/831/910 > modems/mifis) use OS fingerprinting to determine which type of device to > export. In addition, these devices export a REST API which can be used to > control the type of device. So far, on Linux, the devices have been seen as > RNDIS or CDC Ether. > > When CDC Ether is used, devices of the same type are, as with RNDIS, > exported with the same, bogus random MAC address. In addition, the devices > (at least on all firmware revisions I have found) use the bogus MAC when > sending traffic routed from external networks. And as a final feature, the > devices sometimes export the link state incorrectly. There are also > references online to several other ZTE devices displaying this behavior, > with several different PIDs and MAC addresses. > > This patch tries to improve the handling of ZTE devices by doing the > following: ... > v3->v4: > * Forgot to remove unused variables, sorry about that (thanks David > Miller). Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
