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]
