Subject: Re: bridge and IPs
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/21/2005 21:41:33
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:20:31AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>
> It's not presently possible. It's something I've wished for in the
> past, too, in particular for cases where the set of interfaces in a
> bridge is subject to change.
I think it's a really bad idea. It's about as bad a layering violation
as I can think of. It's trivial to just add a tap interface if you
want to actually have one particular MAC address (and IP address, if
that's what you're after) on the bridge all the time.