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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridge MAC selection
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:29:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4850FA96.1050205@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E88155B5BD67CE4D87A3F1F70950B96A2FF8AA@berta.maurer-it.com>

Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>>> There any side effects with the following patch?
>> Not for you. But if it got changed now, it would surprise the 
>> existing users (change in ABI behaviour).  
>>
>> So if you need a particular mac address, you can set it with 
>> other tools (ip or ifconfig).
> 
> You are right, I can set the Hw address with ifconfig - but 
> any 'brctl addif' later resets the address, so that is simply not 
> usable.

Maybe add a persistent option to keep the manually configured
mac? Or simply disable this behaviour if a mac is configured
manually automatically. If someone does this, its probably
fair to assume he doesn't expect the address to change.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-12 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-11  8:27 [Bridge] Bridge MAC selection Dietmar Maurer
2008-06-11 15:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-06-12  4:51   ` Dietmar Maurer
2008-06-12 10:29     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-12 11:10       ` Dietmar Maurer
2008-06-12 13:22         ` Andy Gospodarek
2008-06-12 13:39           ` Patrick McHardy

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