Linux Ethernet Bridging - Apr 2007 - [Bluez-devel] Re: [Bridge] bridging bluetooth bnep deviceswith kernel 2.6.6-*

The ifreq structure to br_dev_do_ioctl() gives you the interface index
(rq->ifr_ifindex) which is currently not being used.

May be it can help..

-Kishore
>>> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 05/19/04 10:30PM
>>>
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