When the MAC address of a bridge interface is changed, it cannot communicate
with others. Because Whether or not a packet should be transferred to bridge
interface depends on whether or not dst of a packet is in fdb and is_local=y.
If we change MAC address of a bridge interface, it isn't in fdb.
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From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 09:21:06 -0800
> Looked into using fdb to handle this, but then there would be fdb entries
> where the destination port entry was either NULL (or a dummy), and that
> would require a bunch of auditing of all usages and could introduce new
> bugs.
>
>
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:31:18 +0900
Koki Sanagi wrote:
> When the MAC address of a bridge interface is changed, it cannot communicate
> with others. Because Whether or not a packet should be transferred to bridge
> interface depends on whether or not dst of a packet is in fdb and is_local=y.
> If
From: Koki Sanagi
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:31:18 +0900
> When the MAC address of a bridge interface is changed, it cannot communicate
> with others. Because Whether or not a packet should be transferred to bridge
> interface depends on whether or not dst of a packet is in fdb and is_local=y.
> I
