[ovs-discuss] listen for up/down ports messages from vSwtich

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Sep 30 15:45:13 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:44:37AM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Last question - why port status messages not contain hardware address
> of port (mac) i'm try to start vm via libvirt and it adds vnet0 port
> with mac address, but port status message have nil.

OVS reports the MAC address of the port as seen by the host.  This is
often different from the MAC address seen by the guest; for example, on
XenServer, it is always FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.  (I don't know what
hypervisor you are using or whether it works this way.)



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