On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:33:54PM +0100, Frédéric Parrenin wrote: > I have a Dell latitude 5285 laptop connected to a Dell DS1000 docking station through an usb-c cable. > Both devices are supposed to support Mac Address "pass through", that is, the internal laptop mac address is used instead of the mac address of the docking station. > Unfortunately, this does not seem to work under linux. > When I type "ip a", I get the mac adress of the docking station. > And the network does not work. > Is this supposed to work under linux? > I saw a commit related to this issue here: > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/34ee32c9a5696247be405bb0c21f3d1fc6cb5729 > but it does not specifically mention the Dell DS1000. What type of USB driver is binding to this device? If you run: lsusb -t from a command line, what is the output? And what kernel version are you using? thanks, greg k-h
