[ovs-discuss] bond's active slave mac not updated when nic is replaced?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 11:11:46AM -0700, Ray Li wrote:
> I've configured an OVS bond with multiple network interfaces. The bond's
> active_slave_mac field refers to the mac address of the NIC that's the
> active slave. When I unplug the active slave NIC and replace it with a
> different one, the bond's active_slave_mac field doesn't get updated with
> the mac address of the new NIC.

When you say that active_slave_mac is a "field", what do you mean?