From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:42:40 -0700 Message-ID: <20110826094240.088cb76d@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> References: <20110812113024.GA8900@babylon> <20110826.122917.294108473242938413.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ulrich.weber@sophos.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:36469 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753849Ab1HZQmc (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:42:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110826.122917.294108473242938413.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT) David Miller wrote: > From: Ulrich Weber > Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:30:24 +0200 > > > bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local > > if MAC address of bridge is manually set (BR_SET_MAC_ADDR). Otherwise > > only MAC addresses of bridge members will work if manually set. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber > > As Stephen mentioned, the real bug is that we don't create a local > FDB entry (and get rid of the old one) when the MAC address changes. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Another alternative is going back to restricting the mac address of the bridge to be the same as one of the existing ports. This was how it used to be, but some people wanted to set arbitrary addresses (probably to deal with start up ordering issues).