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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] Prevent MAC address from changing
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:06:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112120650.41bb11b3@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B7881568CF40E4388B615CD06F87B9809885B@clara.maurer-it.com>

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:51:14 +0100
"Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar@proxmox.com> wrote:

> > latest kernels have a way to set mac address. After setting mac
> address
> > of bridge device, then address won't change.
> 
> AFAIK the bridge code always uses the lowest MAC address, so setting the
> MAC address
> does not help. As soon as you add a port with a lower MAC the address 
> changes. Or did that behavior change recently?
> 
> - Dietmar
> 

If you manually configure an MAC address, it sticks as of 2.6.27

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-12 16:05 [Bridge] Prevent MAC address from changing Simon Detheridge
2009-01-12 17:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-01-12 19:51   ` Dietmar Maurer
2009-01-12 20:06     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
     [not found] <1107190142.119461231806153899.JavaMail.root@ken>
2009-01-13  0:25 ` Simon Detheridge

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