[ovs-dev] [PATCH 6/6] netdev-vport: Manage ethernet addresses in userspace.

Ethan Jackson ethan at nicira.com
Fri Jan 4 00:45:14 UTC 2013


> This will cause the Ethernet address of vports to change randomly
> whenever ovs-vswitchd is restarted.  I don't know whether that is
> important.
>

I don't think this is a problem.  The ethernet addresses are really only
used in protocols (e.g. CFM) which will be pretty disrupted on restart
anyways.

Ethan
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