Re: bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:29:17 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Ulrich Weber <redacted>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:30:24 +0200

quoted

bridge: accept bridge own MAC address as local
if MAC address of bridge is manually set (BR_SET_MAC_ADDR). Otherwise
only MAC addresses of bridge members will work if manually set.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weber <redacted>

As Stephen mentioned, the real bug is that we don't create a local
FDB entry (and get rid of the old one) when the MAC address changes.
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Another alternative is going back to restricting the mac address of
the bridge to be the same as one of the existing ports. This was how
it used to be, but some people wanted to set arbitrary addresses
(probably to deal with start up ordering issues).