> It seems the bridge takes on the MAC address of the last added
> interface.  This poses a problem as one of the devices on our 

If I recall well, and the testings I have done now seem to say so, the
bridge takes the MAC address of the interface with the lowest MAC, not the
last one.

I don't know what your problems are, but one thing I've seen used on
machines that had a permanent card and a hot plug one, both atached to the
same bridge interface, is that they assigned the lowest mac address of the
hot plug card to the permanent one, that way no matter if you plugged or
unplugged the hot plug devices, you allways had the same MAC on the bridge.

You can do this via something like ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 
where the XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the MAC you want to set to the permanent
interface, in this case eth0

Hope this helps.

Regards...
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Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net
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