Hi Sumit, Dan, Thank you for your feedback. I look forward to the discussion at the summit. Also will take a look at API extension.
Thanks, Tomoe On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Dan Wendlandt <d...@nicira.com> wrote: > Hi Tomoe, > > This is definitely a reasonable thing to want. One of the things we'll be > discussing at the summit is a plan for merging Melange and Quantum, in which > case, the "attributes" of a port may well include addresses that Melange has > allocated, including MAC + v4/v6 addresses. This would make a Quantum Port > somewhat similar to an Amazon Elastic Network Interface (ENI). > > Otherwise, as Sumit points out, the Quantum API can be extended for plugin > specific properties. > > Dan > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Tomoe Sugihara <to...@midokura.com> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> I just looked at quantum code and leaned that quantum port doesn't >> care about the mac addresses. >> I think it's true that switch port doesn't necessarily have mac >> address in general, but normally switches learn mac addresses per >> port. >> So I thought it would be useful for some implementation of plugins, >> for example to optimize mac learning, to get mac address as a >> parameter for create port API. >> >> Was there any related discussion about this? I'd appreciate any >> comments on this. >> >> Cheers, >> Tomoe >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack >> Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Dan Wendlandt > Nicira Networks: www.nicira.com > twitter: danwendlandt > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
