Re: [Lxc-users] mac addresses

2010-02-12 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On 02/12/2010 02:18 PM, Brian K. White wrote: > In the course of talking to Verizon I discovered the off the cuff > shell/awk loop I used to re-write all my config files at once had a typo > and created the same exact mac in all config files. > > stopped all containers, wrote the intended_non_dupli

Re: [Lxc-users] mac addresses

2010-02-12 Thread Brian K. White
Brian K. White wrote: > Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:37 -0500, Brian K. White wrote: >>> So my question is, is "02:x:x:x:x:x" in some way non-routable just >>> because it sets the locally-administered bit? >> I use that all the time without any problems. It may be someth

Re: [Lxc-users] mac addresses

2010-02-12 Thread Brian K. White
Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:37 -0500, Brian K. White wrote: >> So my question is, is "02:x:x:x:x:x" in some way non-routable just >> because it sets the locally-administered bit? > > I use that all the time without any problems. It may be something in > the way their sw

Re: [Lxc-users] mac addresses

2010-02-12 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 11:37 -0500, Brian K. White wrote: > The reason I'm trying to use the new mac numbering scheme in case it's > not apparent is, an OUI consumes 3 of the available 6 bytes in a mac, > leaving only 3 to make a unique number out of. Yet IP addresses have 4 > bytes and I want a

[Lxc-users] mac addresses

2010-02-12 Thread Brian K. White
I have a host set up with 0.6.5 + force-umount-rootfs.patch and 9 containers. Bridge/veth networking with all ip's on real internet ip's on a Verizion FiOS static ip account. (Verizon in this case, supplies essentially a connection to a switch, there is no customer-side router to provide the I