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Bug 692880 - Do not rely on MAC address as primary identifier for bridged interfaces
Do not rely on MAC address as primary identifier for bridged interfaces
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 693684
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-01-30 15:18 UTC by David Jaša
Modified: 2013-02-18 20:19 UTC
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Description David Jaša 2013-01-30 15:18:16 UTC 
Bridged interfaces change MAC address dynamically in default configuration, thus using MAC as primary identifier causes many sorts of wrong behaviour, such as:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905035 , https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902907 .

IMO if device type is bridge, bridge name should be the identifier.
Comment 1 Pavel Simerda 2013-02-09 22:18:19 UTC 
Confirmed.
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2013-02-18 20:19:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 693684 ***