From: Thomas Mueller <thomas@chaschperli.ch>
To: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] bridge changes id on addif - is that normal?
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:26:08 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ggbi50$cf1$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20081122224021.39238f0c@extreme
>>
> First off the hardware address of the bridge is by default the lowest of
> all the interfaces (unless you set it). This was done by original author
> to deal with case of interfaces added out of order on boot.
ok, this would be nice if that would be mentioned on the https://
www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge#FAQ page. I couldn't find any
information on how the bridge-id is evaluated on searching the internet.
i've now set it to a lower mac-addr and now the bridge-id doesn't change
on addif.
>
> The second issue is because you are making a loop in your network. If
> you had STP enabled it would probably scream at you.
ok, that is what I assuemd could be the problem.
Thank you!
- Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-23 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-22 13:43 [Bridge] bridge changes id on addif - is that normal? Thomas Mueller
2008-11-22 15:47 ` Thomas Mueller
2008-11-23 6:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-11-23 12:26 ` Thomas Mueller [this message]
2008-11-23 13:29 ` Dietmar Maurer
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