Hello experts,

I have a SRIOV VF interface [PF is Intel 82599] available in a FreeBSD 8.4 VM.

We are planning to add support for Static LA on the VM [aka NIC bonding], for this the Administrative MAC of the VF needs to be over-written with the LA mac.

Since Anit-mac spoofing is enabled by default in Intel 82599 NIC, we are getting the below error:

2015-09-07T10:04:21.369Z cpu3:33077)<4>ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: vmnic2: VF 0 attempted to set a new MAC address but it already has an administratively set MAC address  00: 0c:29:5c:64:af

2015-09-07T10:04:21.369Z cpu3:33077)<4>ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: vmnic2: Check the VF driver and if it is not using the correct MAC address you may need to reload the VF driver

2015-09-07T10:04:22.717Z cpu17:33238)<4>ixgbe 0000:02:00.1: vmnic2: 34 Spoofed packets detected

Intel 82599 NIC supports enable/disable of anti-mac spoofing configuration through ixgbe_netdev_features.

In the Linux world it is achieved through "ip link command"

Disabling anti-spoofing protection on a VF (NIC... | Intel Communities

For ESX 5.5/6.0 , is there an equivalent cli command that can be run to disable anti-mac spoofing for SRIOV VF interfaces?

Please let me know.

Regards,

Nirmal