On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Robert Collins wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Julian Edwards > <[email protected]> wrote: > > To clarify, why would someone "very likely would want to query by the > > mac address". What's the use case? > > If they are staring at a rack full of hardware, one of which has a > fault light lit, the only data they have at hand is the MAC address of > the ethernet card, which is (for servers) often printed on the card, > for exactly this reason.
Right, and if there is a database of information about systems, then it contains MAC addresses. The other thing is that if maas is not in charge of the dhcp and they're doing static-dhcp, then they clearly *do* have a MAC address to system database somewhere already. basically, MAC is a unique id for a system that people already have and use, and as Robert said, is often actually on a sticker on the hardware. (ignore the known fact that there duplicate macs exist). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1027154 Title: Unable to look up a node based on mac address To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1027154/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
