[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2] ovn-northd: support IPAM with externally specified MAC

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:58:51PM -0400, Lance Richardson wrote:
> The current IPAM implementation allocates both a MAC address and
> an IPv4 address when dynamic address allocation is requested. This
> patch adds the ability to specify a fixed MAC address for use with
> dynamic IPv4 address allocation.
> 
> Example:
>    ovn-nbctl lsp-set-addresses p1 "00:01:02:03:04:05 dynamic"
> 
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russell at ovn.org>
> Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lrichard at redhat.com>
> ---
> v2: - Simplified is_dynamic_lsp_address() using implementation by
>       Ben Pfaff (with minor adjustment, removed a space from scan
>       string).

For what it's worth, the space had semantic meaning: it prevented a
string with trailing white space from being rejected.  Maybe that is
undesirable, so I didn't add it back in.

>     - Use ovs_scan() to extract static MAC in ipam_alloc_addresses()
>       instead of eth_addr_from_string() since the latter function
>       no longer allows trailing characters.

Thanks, I added a NEWS item and applied this.