duplicate epair ipv6 addresses

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Frank Razenberg wrote:

Hey,

> base
> nfe0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 
> 1500
>        options=80008<VLAN_MTU,LINKSTATE>
>        ether 00:22:15:bb:6d:6f
>        inet 10.31.45.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.31.45.255
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>        status: active
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
> bridge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether de:3b:7a:d8:3a:98
>        id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 hellotime 2 fwddelay 15
>        maxage 20 holdcnt 6 proto rstp maxaddr 100 timeout 1200
>        root id 00:00:00:00:00:00 priority 32768 ifcost 0 port 0
>        member: epair2a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>                ifmaxaddr 0 port 6 priority 128 path cost 2000
>        member: epair1a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>                ifmaxaddr 0 port 5 priority 128 path cost 2000
>        member: epair0a flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>                ifmaxaddr 0 port 4 priority 128 path cost 2000
>        member: nfe0 flags=143<LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP>
>                ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 55
> epair0a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 
> mtu 1500
>        ether 02:9a:c6:00:04:0a
> epair1a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 
> mtu 1500
>        ether 02:da:d1:00:05:0a
> epair2a: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 
> mtu 1500
>        ether 02:ea:c6:00:06:0a

What makes me wonder is why the ether addresses of all three "a"
epair ends are non-default?   Do you know what changed them?  Did you
do do avoid collisions with possibly other epairs bridged to a 2nd
machine over nfe0?

/bz

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