Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Re: [Bridge] bridging bluetooth bnep devices
	with kernel 2.6.6-*
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Diego Liziero <liziero.diego@unimore.it>, bridge@lists.osdl.org,
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:00:56 +0100

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:36 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Hmm, since all the blue tooth devices have the same address.
> Deleting the first one will cause the entry in the forwarding table
> to be deleted, that might cause your problem.  Perhaps we need a
> reference count on the number of interfaces with the same address (yuck).

That seems like a reasonable answer. I believe there's also some
workstation hardware with multiple Ethernet devices, all sharing the
same MAC address (== hostid). It's not just Bluetooth. How does this
work with VLAN bridging?

Precisely what is it that's indexed on the interface's MAC address,
rather than the (index of the) physical interface itself?

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dwmw2


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