On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If IFLA_ADDRESS is set when creating a bridge over netlink, e.g. > > # ip link add test-bridge address b6:83:a2:b3:2f:0e type bride > > the bridge id is not set: > > # brctl show > bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces > bridge1 8000.000000000000 no
My example was incomplete. To see the bug one should of course first add an interface to the bridge: # brctl addif bridge1 eth0 and observe that the bridge id remains unset: # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces bridge1 8000.000000000000 no eth0 If bridge1 had been created without specifying the mac address the result is as expected: # brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces bridge1 8000.28d244547cdb no eth0 Cheers, Tom
