From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 13 07:43:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67AEF16A403 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:43:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7CA13C455 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:43:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp211-97.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.211.97]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0D7hLSl059837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:13:22 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:13:02 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20070106210211.GF839@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20070112221152.GA54760@icarus.home.lan> <45A813AE.5090104@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <45A813AE.5090104@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1742984.BOCjI5fCZg"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200701131813.11675.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , stable@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Source MAC addresses when bridge(4) used X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:43:25 -0000 --nextPart1742984.BOCjI5fCZg Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 13 January 2007 09:33, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > As for *why* the IP address keeps moving around, I'm not sure either. The bridge interfaces MAC address changes every time you create one, ie [inchoate 18:11] /usr/src/sys/modules/bridgestp >sudo ifconfig bridge0 crea= te [inchoate 18:11] /usr/src/sys/modules/bridgestp >sudo ifconfig bridge0 bridge0: flags=3D8802 mtu 1500 ether e6:91:28:34:39:79 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 [inchoate 18:11] /usr/src/sys/modules/bridgestp >sudo ifconfig bridge0 dest= roy [inchoate 18:11] /usr/src/sys/modules/bridgestp >sudo ifconfig bridge0 crea= te [inchoate 18:11] /usr/src/sys/modules/bridgestp >sudo ifconfig bridge0 bridge0: flags=3D8802 mtu 1500 ether d2:da:21:33:32:df priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15 maxage 20 so if you reboot then the MAC address will change at each reboot. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1742984.BOCjI5fCZg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFqI2P5ZPcIHs/zowRArykAKCb7uzUsBHLYRnd6SLUcohqlqzssQCfSmeY M8/2825/MxWj99Fj1eaffwY= =cfBd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1742984.BOCjI5fCZg--