MAC address assignment/rotation?

Derrik Pates mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Thu, 2 Oct 2003 10:10:45 -0400


On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Mark S. Mathews wrote:
> 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.

The problem isn't the MAC address of the bridge device, but the MAC
address of the virtual Ethernet device for each Mac-on-Linux instance.

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Derrik Pates
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