On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:10 PM, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:15:25 -0700 > "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
