On 6/26/12 11:02 AM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
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>> Ultimately, it may just be a bad idea to have a bridge's MAC address 
>> change once established, at least as long as the bridge still contains an 
>> underlying interface that "owns" the MAC address it's using.
> 
> That is nothing netifd or OpenWrt does, it is the behaviour of Linux
> bridges - they'll assume the lowest MAC address of all their member ifaces.
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> Imo that should be changed in the Kernel, it shoud fix the bridge MAC to
> the one of the first member iface added, and then never change it again
> even if the ports change.
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> ~ Jow

I thought that used to be its behavior. Did that change? I remember having 
similar issues both with wireless LANs bridged to ethernet, as well as Ethernet 
bridged to DSL with PPPoE...

The old behavior was that the first interface to join the bridge would set the 
bridge's address.




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