[Bridge] received packet with own address as source address

Christopher S. Aker caker at theshore.net
Mon Jan 26 08:28:24 PST 2004


> just my $0.02:
>
> ethertap interfaces has fake mac addresses, generated somehow by the
> tun/tap driver, and they are same on both sides in your case. Don't know
> why.
>
> -- Nikolay Datchev

Not sure what gave me the idea to use the same MAC on the TAP and inside the UML.
Since the earlier versions of bridge didn't complain about it, perhaps I figured I
should fight it :)  Anyways, using a different MAC for the TAP and the UML seems
to have solved all of the issues.

Thanks for the help!
-Chris




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