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Subject: Re: Bridging behavior apparently changed around the Fedora 14 time
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:10:28 -0700
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On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:08:14 -0500
"Greg Scott" <GregScott@Infrasupport.com> wrote:

> > What about console dmesg output.
> 
> I should probably turn off all firewall logging so I don't fill the ring
> buffer with my log messages in, like, the first couple minutes after a
> boot.  :)
> 
> > Please retest with a standard upstream kernel (like 2.6.39.2).
> 
> That's gonna take a while to put together a whole test environment with
> the latest kernel.org kernel.
> 
> > The bridge itself puts the device into promiscuous mode already.

The bridge code calls dev_set_promiscuity() which should
be changing device mode. But it could be that netdev core is 
resetting/changing/breaking that.