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

[Manuel de Ferran]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>wrote:

> 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/
>
>
Great ! That's better than my workaround : I added a dummy interface with a
minimal hw addr to the bridge.

Thanks
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