On Nov 21, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Xavier Naveira <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Can you pls fill a JIRA ticket for it? :-) Would be easier to track that issue in future. Implementing it is not a problem, I will have patch in few hours (minutes ;-), then we can discuss about the actual implementation. Cheers, -- Michal > > 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] >> >> >> Michal Fojtik http://deltacloud.org [email protected]
