[Users] openvz veth and bridging HN "bug"

[Roman Haefeli]

On Don, 2013-02-14 at 17:58 +0100, Benjamin Henrion wrote:

> I spent a day debugging why when I was restarting a VZ with veth the
> HN was suddenly not pingable anymore.
> 
> Then I found this article:
> 
> http://notes.asd.me.uk/2011/01/31/openvz-bridge-vanishing-network-fix/
> 
> I put FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF as hostmac in all the VZ configs, and now it
> works like a charm.

I suffered the same issue with the Debian OpenVZ kernel. Then I was
surprised to see that Proxmox Kernels handles bridge MACs differently.
There the bridge seems to use the MAC of the physical interface
(probably because it is the first added to the bridge, but I don't
really know).

Roman