On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:12:40AM +0000, Vishal Deep Ajmera wrote: > > BTW, I suggested earlier but maybe I wasn't clear. > > > > Instead of adding networking configuration to the bridge's port, just > > leave it alone with a name that doesn't bother you. > > > > Then create an internal port with the name and the networking > > configuration you need. It won't change its MAC and neither lose > > the routes. They both will be tap devices anyways. > > Issue with assigning IP and routes to a tap port is that this tap port gets > a random mac address which cannot be guaranteed to be unique > across multiple nodes. I think that is the reason why bridge is assigned > same mac address of a physical port (when port is added to a bridge) since > physical ports will have unique mac address.
You could use MACADDR= in ifcfg to have a stable MAC if that's only issue, but yeah, you would have to manage them. -- Flavio _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
