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On 25/02/2011, at 17:26, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> (since I need to forward some ports to this server). So I set
> net.link.bridge.inherit_mac=1, which makes bridge0 to use bge0's MAC
> address, always. But this causes another problem: the packets sent to
> bridge0 is also sent to bge0, -- the packets are duplicated! The
> kernel have to drop half of them. So how can I bind a distinct MAC
> address to a bridge?

Does bge0 have an address? It shouldn't.

You can set the MAC address of the bridge with..
ifconfig bridge0 lladdr aa:bb:dd:ee:ff:gg

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