From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich Weber Subject: Re: bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:36:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4E4556A6.5050201@sophos.com> References: <20110812113024.GA8900@babylon> <20110812091909.712fa36e@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from dhost002-85.dex002.intermedia.net ([64.78.20.223]:45367 "EHLO dhost002-85.dex002.intermedia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751180Ab1HLQmb (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:42:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110812091909.712fa36e@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/12/2011 06:19 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > A cleaner way to do this would be better to put a local entry > in the forwarding database when mac address is manually set. > Then there would not be special case code. I agree, would be nicer to have it in the forwarding db. However to which bridge port should i attach this entry? Seems to be wrong for me to have it attached to a not related port... The intention of this patch is to set the bridge MAC to any address, not related to an bridge port interface. Cheers Ulrich --=20 Ulrich Weber | ulrich.weber@sophos.com | Senior Software Engineer Astaro - a Sophos company | Amalienbadstr 41 | 76227 Karlsruhe | German= y Phone +49-721-25516-0 | Fax =96200 | www.astaro.com