Bug#1002656: bridge-utils: bridge_hw: add random option like for ifupdown hwaddress

2023-06-11 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 6:04 AM Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 22:34:17 +0200 Santiago Garcia Mantinan > wrote: > > > The kernel using the MAC of a real device, if none is specified, is > > > precisely what we wanna avoid. Systemd is not involed. > > > > Like I said, if we

Bug#1002656: bridge-utils: bridge_hw: add random option like for ifupdown hwaddress

2023-06-09 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 22:34:17 +0200 Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > The kernel using the MAC of a real device, if none is specified, is > > precisely what we wanna avoid. Systemd is not involed. > > Like I said, if we don't specify the mac address systemd will set up a fake > one for us, so...

Bug#1002656: bridge-utils: bridge_hw: add random option like for ifupdown hwaddress

2022-10-07 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
> The kernel using the MAC of a real device, if none is specified, is > precisely what we wanna avoid. Systemd is not involed. Like I said, if we don't specify the mac address systemd will set up a fake one for us, so... systemd is involved and the kernel is not allowed to use a real one, that's

Bug#1002656: bridge-utils: bridge_hw: add random option like for ifupdown hwaddress

2022-10-06 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 1:01 AM Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > > It would be desirable for bridge_hw to be able to generate a random MAC > > address as per ifupdown's generic hwaddress syntax. > > I don't know if I get this right or not... if you don't want to specify a > MAC or get it from an

Bug#1002656: bridge-utils: bridge_hw: add random option like for ifupdown hwaddress

2022-10-06 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! > It would be desirable for bridge_hw to be able to generate a random MAC > address as per ifupdown's generic hwaddress syntax. I don't know if I get this right or not... if you don't want to specify a MAC or get it from an interface... then you better not assign any MAC and so systemd will

Bug#1002656: bridge-utils: bridge_hw: add random option like for ifupdown hwaddress

2021-12-26 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: bridge-utils Version: 1.7-1 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 It would be desirable for bridge_hw to be able to generate a random MAC address as per ifupdown's generic hwaddress syntax. Possible values for bridge_hw would thereafter be: MAC interface