From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4850FA96.1050205@trash.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:29:42 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080611085859.721e3917@extreme> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bridge] Bridge MAC selection List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dietmar Maurer Cc: Stephen Hemminger , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org 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.