Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Bridged interface MAC address changes during DHCP client transaction wtih netifd

2012-06-27 Thread Mark Mentovai
Felix Fietkau wrote: I did add code to netifd to take care of this a while ago, but there was a bug that prevented it from working. This bug is fixed in the latest version, committed in r32506 Great, I confirmed that this is working as it used to now. Thanks!

[OpenWrt-Devel] Bridged interface MAC address changes during DHCP client transaction wtih netifd

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Mentovai
I suspect that the netifd changes are related, since that looks like the only relevant area of major activity in the past month when this began happening. Then again, the timing-sensitive nature means that the underlying problem may have been present for a while, and only exposed with the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Bridged interface MAC address changes during DHCP client transaction wtih netifd

2012-06-26 Thread Jo-Philipp Wich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Bridged interface MAC address changes during DHCP client transaction wtih netifd

2012-06-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 6/26/12 11:02 AM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Bridged interface MAC address changes during DHCP client transaction wtih netifd

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Mentovai
Philip Prindeville wrote: On 6/26/12 11:02 AM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: 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. Imo that should be changed in the Kernel, it shoud fix the bridge MAC to

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Bridged interface MAC address changes during DHCP client transaction wtih netifd

2012-06-26 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2012-06-27 12:09 AM, Mark Mentovai wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: On 6/26/12 11:02 AM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote: 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. Imo that should be changed