On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 22:34:17 +0200 Santiago Garcia Mantinan <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > The kernel using the MAC of a real device, if none is specified, is > > precisely what we wanna avoid. Systemd is not involed. > > Like I said, if we don't specify the mac address systemd will set up a fake > one for us, so... systemd is involved and the kernel is not allowed to use a > real one, that's why I said that bridge-utils shouldn't do a thing about > this.
No, systemd does not set up a fake MAC address. Rather, the MAC address of any PHY attached to the bridge is used if no MAC address is specified. Martin-Éric
