On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:14:58AM +0200, Anders Selhammer wrote:
> Currently the clockIdentity is generated from the mac address of the first
> interface/port in config file. This patch add the possibility to set it in
> config file.
> The reason is if the stack is restarted with a different set of ports, it
> may be circumstances when clockIdentity needs to be equal as before
> restart even if the port setup is different.

Actually, thinking more about this, it really makes sense to me to
have this option.  The clock ID is really a GUID, and it can be simply
a EUI-64 not derived from a EUI-48 (like a MAC address).

Thanks,
Richard


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