On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 1:01 AM Santiago Garcia Mantinan <ma...@debian.org> wrote: > > It would be desirable for bridge_hw to be able to generate a random MAC > > address as per ifupdown's generic hwaddress syntax. > > I don't know if I get this right or not... if you don't want to specify a > MAC or get it from an interface... then you better not assign any MAC and so > systemd will do his thing and assign a "random" one. > > I really don't think that the code on bridge-utils should generate such a > random MAC, systemd already causes a lot of trouble by overriding the > address that the kernel would select, I don't think we need another actor > here. > > Can you justify your request?
The kernel using the MAC of a real device, if none is specified, is precisely what we wanna avoid. Systemd is not involed. Martin-Éric
