Sorry, my bad... I found it in the June 2003 '[Bridge] Mac address bug' post.
Colby Silver School District 91 (250)567-2284 ext 247 (250)567-4639 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Is there any way to choose which MAC address to use? > >My situation is that I would like create a bridge between a Linux box and >an Teletronics CPE unit. The Linux box has a Teletronics wireless card >and a LinkSys ethernet card, with the LinkSys MAC being the lower one. >The CPE is also setup as a bridge. > >The problem is that the CPE does not accept traffic from the br0 interface >when it takes the LinkSys MAC address. If I start br0 with only the >wireless card as a slave, I can send traffic from the Linux box. Once I >add the LinkSys card the MAC address changes and the CPE will no longer >accept the traffic. I realize that a possible solution is to get a LAN >card with a higher MAC address, but if it's possible to get around this it >would be useful. > >Thanks, >cs > >Colby Silver >School District 91 >(250)567-2284 ext 247 >(250)567-4639 FAX > >>For the bridge MAC address, the numerically lowest MAC address is chosen, >as >>is recommended by the 802.1d specification. >> >> >>On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:32:46PM +0200, Daliang Wen wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Just joined the list and I have a question. >>> >>> I have 2 Linux boxes. Both of them have the same kernel: 2.2.18brgw >>> kernel using bridge-utils-0.9.2. They also have a ethernet interface >>> (eth0) and a wlan interface (wlan0) running as a 802.11 BS. >>> Here are the bridge configuration steps: >>> brctl addbr br0 >>> brctl addif br0 eth0 >>> brctl addif br0 wlan0 >>> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 >>> ifconfig wlan0 0.0.0.0 >>> ifconfig br0 0.0.0.0 >>> >>> My question is : how does bridge decide which physical address it is >>> going to use? One bridge uses the eth0 phsical address while the other >>> one uses wlan0's physical address. No matter how I change the order of >>> commands (addif wlan0 first, then eth0), the result is the same. I have >>> the same network interface card in both Linux. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> /Daliang >>> >>> Daliang Wen >>> A Brand New World >>> Box 1223 >>> S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN >>> >>> Office: +46 8 477 98 44 >>> Mobile: +46 70 9 944 966 >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bridge mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge > > >_______________________________________________ >Bridge mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
