On 31/01/2020 15:23, Steve Dickson wrote:
> I know there was a change with systemd-networkd in a recent
release so
> that it now creates a unique but persistent MAC for bridges and maybe
> other systems like NetworkManager have done the same?
Hmm... this seems odd to me... any idea why this was done?
I believe this is the relevant NEWS entry:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/NEWS#L926
I think the idea is to ensure that a bridge always has the same
address, as by default it gets the address of whichever slave
happens to join first - that's fine in the common case where
there is one address added at boot and then others come and go
but may be non-deterministic if multiple addresses are added
at boot time.
Tom
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