Subject: Re: Bridge connectivity interruptions while devices join or leave the bridge

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:03:58 -0700

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:45:08 +0300
Ido Schimmel <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 01:00:15PM +0200, Johannes Wienke wrote:
> > This behavior of inheriting the mac address is really unexpected to us.
> > Is it documented somewhere?  
> 
> Not that I'm aware, but it's a well established behavior.

Not documented, has always been that way. It seems to be part of 802 standard maybe?
Anyway, if you set a MAC address of the bridge device it makes it sticky;
i.e it won't change if ports of bridge change.