On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:52:17AM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:22 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:20:00AM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:47 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > Why would we ever have duplicate MAC addresses? > > > > > > VLANs: > > > > > > # vconfig add eth0 42 > > > # cat /sys/class/net/eth0.42/address > > > 00:15:58:81:5b:0e > > > # cat /sys/class/net/eth0/address > > > 00:15:58:81:5b:0e > > > > Ok, so for the libvirt API we should define that the lookup-by-mac API > > will not return VLAN devices, since we cant provide a 1-1 lookup there > > Why would you do that ? When the user asks for interfaces with a MAC, > you don't know if they are looking for a VLAN or base device. If they > want the VLAN, how would they look that up ?
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