MAC address assignment/rotation?

[Mark S. Mathews]

802.1d bridges always adopt the mac address of the numerically lowest 
port.

If you go to the bridge utils home site (no link handy, consult the oracle 
at google) I believe there's a patch to allow setting the bridge device to 
use a specific mac address.  You can randomize from there if you wish.

-M

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Derrik Pates wrote:

> In playing around with Mac-on-Linux on a PowerMac 7500, trying to set it
> up in a bridged fashion using the tun driver, I've noticed that the MAC
> address that's used by the virtual network device is always the same.
> This will cause problems for simultaneous sessions (I'm trying to set
> this box up so that multiple users can start networked X sessions of
> MacOS on their Windows machines) to conflict, making networking break.
> There should really be a config file option to set the virtual network
> device's MAC address to some arbitrary address, so that setups like what
> I'm trying to do are possible without serious hacking. I'll see what I
> can do in terms of hacking it in on my own, but... my 2 cents and all
> that.
> 
> 

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