[ovs-discuss] Same mac address of br0 and eth0

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:46:36PM +0800, Jingfei Hu wrote:
> I have installed OVS userspace program on Ubuntu Oneiric according to
> INSTALL.Linux. Then I have added a bridge using following commands:
> 
> sudo ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> sudo ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev
> sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
> sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tap0
> 
> Then I setup the bridge br0 as follows:
> sudo ifconfig br0 192.168.1.24 netmask 255.255.255.0
> After that, I check it with command ifconfig -a, finding that the mac br0
> and eth0 have the same mac.
> 
> Is it normal?

Yes.