I was referring to the local IP in the "ip link add ... remote x.z.z.z
local y.z.z.z" command specifying the endpoints of the tunnel. It lets
it be added to the bridge if y is even, but not if y is odd. Why should
it care what the IP of the tunnel endpoints are?

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       nneul@mst.edu
Missouri S&T Information Technology    (573) 612-1412
System Administrator - Principal       KD0DMH

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@vyatta.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:01 PM
To: Neulinger, Nathan
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to use gretap with bridge?

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:01:31 -0500
"Neulinger, Nathan" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Further testing - if the leading octet of the 'local' address is

even,

quoted

it allows it to be added to bridge, if it's odd, it won't.

Any ideas?

If leading octet of MAC address is odd, then bridge thinks it
is not a valid ethernet for bridging because it is a multicast
address.


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