From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org>
Cc: Johannes Wienke <jwienke@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bridge connectivity interruptions while devices join or leave the bridge
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:03:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180919100358.0ea95c20@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180919164508.GA4975@splinter>
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:45:08 +0300
Ido Schimmel <idosch@idosch.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:00:15PM +0200, Johannes Wienke wrote:
> > This behavior of inheriting the mac address is really unexpected to us.
> > Is it documented somewhere?
>
> Not that I'm aware, but it's a well established behavior.
Not documented, has always been that way. It seems to be part of 802 standard maybe?
Anyway, if you set a MAC address of the bridge device it makes it sticky;
i.e it won't change if ports of bridge change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-19 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-19 9:10 Bridge connectivity interruptions while devices join or leave the bridge Johannes Wienke
2018-09-19 10:07 ` Ido Schimmel
2018-09-19 11:00 ` Johannes Wienke
2018-09-19 16:45 ` Ido Schimmel
2018-09-19 17:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-09-19 20:57 ` Johannes Wienke
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