[Lxc-users] Weirdness with lxc.network.hwaddr and connectivity loss

[Daniel Lezcano]

On 05/23/2011 12:31 PM, Manuel de Ferran wrote:
> Greetings lxc-users,
>
> I'm running lxc 0.7.4-0ubuntu7 on an ubuntu 11.04 with kernel
> 2.6.38-8-generic.
>
> There is something I don't understand with the lxc.network.hwaddr. I was
> expecting to have the veth MAC addr set to it, but it appears that is only
> setting the vm ethernet.
>
> If we can not use this parameter to set the veth MAC address, how do you
> deal with the bridge switch to lowest MAC ? This switch implies a
> connectivity loss on lxc-stop

Hi Manuel,

may be you can find a work around with this post:

http://backreference.org/2010/07/28/linux-bridge-mac-addresses-and-dynamic-ports/