On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 11:28:27AM -0500, Krishna Pratap wrote: > Is it possible to set the MAC address of the local port of bridge( not the > address of bridge itself) with a fixed address? > > I tried couple of ways to do it. one of them mentioned here in this old > thread > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-June/005297.html > > i tested this one out but it doesn't change the mac address of port br0. > here is what I did. > > root@ccpu:~# ovs-vsctl add-br br0 -- set bridge br0 > other-config:hwaddr=\"00:15:17:a0:29:80\" > root@ccpu5:~# ovs-ofctl dump-ports-desc br0 > OFPST_PORT_DESC reply (xid=0x2): > LOCAL(br0): addr:ce:09:03:00:00:00 > config: PORT_DOWN > state: LINK_DOWN > speed: 0 Mbps now, 0 Mbps max > > > As we can see the Mac address doesn't change. it does update the bridge > table's other-config column .
I think that should work. I notice that the port is down. Does it make any difference to bring it up? _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
