Hi,

To keep reporting the MAC address sounds like an excellent solution, I would be very happy if you implement it :)

Let me know if I can help in any way.

Xavier

On 11/21/2012 11:36 AM, Michal Fojtik wrote:
On Nov 21, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Xavier Naveira <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Xavier,

This is actually a very good catch. We do advertise the MAC address because in 
time between
instance guest tools report the IP address to VSPhere we don't know what the 
real IP address is.

How about this:

<public_addresses>
   <address type="mac">3c:97:0e:1b:3b:82</address>
   <address type="ipv4">10.0.0.1</address>
</public_addresses>

I mean we can just keep reporting the MAC address. Also I think we can do the 
same
for RHEV-M and for the OpenStack.

I can't see anything that we could possibly break with this, because it is just 
addition.
But might be I'm wrong :-)

  -- Michal

Hi,

I have a feature suggestion that I think shouldn't be that hard to add 
(assumption that's probably wrong :) )

I'm using deltacloud with vsphere. regarding the network addresses it seems 
that only the public addresses field is used.

This field is populated with the mac address of the machine when the machine is 
started but doesn't get an ip address from a dhcp server.

As soon a dhcp server offers and ip address and the machine accepts it the mac 
address is replaced with the ip address in the public addresses field.

This is a problem because the macaddress information disappears from deltacloud 
and there is no way to retrieve it once the machine has gotten an ip address 
from dhcp.

Would it be possible to add a field/use the private addresses field to store 
the mac address permanently? How is this managed in the other drivers?

Thank you!

Xavier

Michal Fojtik
http://deltacloud.org
[email protected]



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