On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:21:58 +0100 Rolf Fokkens <rolf.fokkens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In this particular situation it's not possible to do so as all > interfaces are tap interfaces, with random generated MAC addresses. > Changing the tap interface's MAC address results in this: > > [root@home01 ~]# ifconfig tap0 hw ether BA:B7:73:58:E6:E2 > SIOCSIFHWADDR: Device or resource busy > [root@home01 ~]# > > So that doen't work. I found a trick however: I added a dummy ethernet > interface to the bridge, of which i can specify the MAC address, It > works fine, but in syslog there's the following message: > > Dec 26 17:45:21 home01 kernel: [ 29.316480] br0: new device dummy0 > does not support netpoll (disabling) > > This means that the bridge won't use/support netpoll at all, which may > mean there's an impact on performance. I'm not sure. I can imagine that > a netpoll interface for a dummy interface shouldn't be hard to implement. > The message means you can't use kdump/netconsole/kgdb over that bridge device. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
