[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vswitch: Consistently set Nicira OUI.

[Justin Pettit]

On Feb 5, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Jesse Gross wrote:

> I think we could make a pretty good case getting another OUI if necessary in the future, so I don't think that is a big concern.  Setting the top bit is fine with me too (we are currently setting the top two bits in one place but none in another).  Also, these addresses are only used for traffic actually generated by an OVS interface, not every VM (this is different from VMware), so the chance of a collision isn't too high.
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> Can we make a decision on this?  Like I said before, what we have now is pretty much the worst of all worlds.

I think the worst of all worlds is one without children's laughter.  But this is a close second.  I agree with Ben that your proposal is good.  I'd also like it if we used a constant bit or two for dynamically generated ones.

--Justin