Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:37:35 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] bridge: preserve random init MAC address |
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:15:25 -0700 > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote: > >> As it is now if you add create a bridge it gets started >> with a random MAC address and if you then add a net_device >> as a slave but later kick it out you end up with a zero >> MAC address. Instead preserve the original random MAC >> address and use it. > > What is supposed to happen is that the recalculate chooses > the lowest MAC address of the slaves. If there are no slaves > it might as well just calculate a new random value. There is > not great merit in preserving the original defunct address.
OK I'll go and add some changes for this then.
Luis
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