Dietmar Maurer wrote: >>> There any side effects with the following patch? >> Not for you. But if it got changed now, it would surprise the >> existing users (change in ABI behaviour). >> >> So if you need a particular mac address, you can set it with >> other tools (ip or ifconfig). > > You are right, I can set the Hw address with ifconfig - but > any 'brctl addif' later resets the address, so that is simply not > usable. Maybe add a persistent option to keep the manually configured mac? Or simply disable this behaviour if a mac is configured manually automatically. If someone does this, its probably fair to assume he doesn't expect the address to change. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
