On 06/11/2015 04:11 AM, Eren Türkay wrote: > On 10-06-2015 02:14, George Shuklin wrote: >> Aw. Don't discriminate DHCP. It has many nice features (for example, if you >> add >> new interface to existing VM, cloud-init with static config will ignore it, >> but >> DHCP will works like magic). >> >> I don't know how it works in Gentoo, but in Debian 'allow-hotplug' for all >> interfaces but eth0 allows to support most of the future interfaces. Same for >> CentOS - you can add few eth scripts to network configuration and they will >> works as soon as new interface appears. > > I want to add to this comment. I believe this hot-plug feature for ethernet > devices is essential in the cloud environment. Short time ago I needed to move > port from one instance to another while keeping the internal IP address same. > I > achieved it by removing a port from the old instance, re-creating the port > with > the same ip address, and pluging it to the new instance. > > The downtime was minimal as the instance supported hot-plug (ubuntu 14.04) and > the ip addresses were distributed using DHCP. When the interface was > re-plugged, dhclient requested an ip address and the DHCP server gave the > internal address of the port which I specified. > > So, it would be really great if you can support hot-plugging for ethernet > devices and DHCP. I find them very useful and I believe many people would > expect this feature from Gentoo image. > > Regards, > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > ya, it's probably the number one thing I want to see as well and the next thing I'm working on.
-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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