On 19.09.18 19:03, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:45:08 +0300 > Ido Schimmel <ido...@idosch.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:00:15PM +0200, Johannes Wienke wrote: >>> This behavior of inheriting the mac address is really unexpected to us. >>> Is it documented somewhere? >> >> Not that I'm aware, but it's a well established behavior. > > Not documented, has always been that way. It seems to be part of 802 standard > maybe? > Anyway, if you set a MAC address of the bridge device it makes it sticky; > i.e it won't change if ports of bridge change.
Yes sure. It was just unexpected to meet this and we ha no clue that this could be a reasonable default. I just wonder what the motivation for hat is and of course some more obvious documentation would have helped a lot in debugging/avoid this. Cheers, Johannes -- Johannes Wienke, Researcher at CoR-Lab / CITEC, Bielefeld University Address: Inspiration 1, D-33619 Bielefeld, Germany (Room 1.307) Phone: +49 521 106-67277
