[Bridge] bridge changes id on addif - is that normal?

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Sun Nov 23 05:29:41 PST 2008


> > First off the hardware address of the bridge is by default the
lowest
> of
> > all the interfaces (unless you set it). This was done by original
> author
> > to deal with case of interfaces added out of order on boot.
> 
> ok, this would be nice if that would be mentioned on the https://
> www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge#FAQ page. I couldn't find any
> information on how the bridge-id is evaluated on searching the
> internet.

Or simply remove that strange behavior - it total nonsense IMO.

- Dietmar



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