[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#774906: network-manager: With bridges sometimes fails to use MAC address from first slave which breaks DHCP and mac-address based ACLs

[Daniel Dickinson]

Source: network-manager
Version: jessie
Severity: normal

When creating bridges it is not possible to specify the bridge MAC address and
sometimes on boot (actually a reboot rather than fresh boot) network-manager
assigns some random MAC adress to the bridge device instead of the MAC address
of the first slave.

This breaks DHCP static leases as well as MAC-based ACLs (e.g. on enterprise-grade
switch you can limit what MAC address combined with VLAN ID are allow to come in on
a certain port on the switch, but this breaks if the MAC address is not known because
it is some randomly assign MAC address that is in the ethernet frame).

Regards,

Daniel

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