`multiple matching interfaces found: the MAC address '...' matches multiple interfaces` appearing in logs
Software environment
- Operating system:
Linux mike-kong 6.4.7-arch1-1 - Architecture: amd64
- kernel version: 6.4.7
- libvirt version: 9.5.0
- Hypervisor and version: QEMU 8.0.3
Description of problem
It's not clear whether this is really causing problems or just filling the logs with trash.
Steps to reproduce
- Have multiple host network interfaces with the same MAC address, for example a bond interface shares the MAC address of its slave
- See logs like
multiple matching interfaces found: the MAC address '8e:2f:2f:2f:97:e4' matches multiple interfacesfrom libvirt components