[ovs-discuss] [PATCH] support persistent mac addresses on OVS bridges on RHEL

[Flavio Leitner]

On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 05:14:35PM -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> This patch adds support for RHEL-derived systems (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora)
> for setting the persistent MAC address of an OVS bridge via the MACADDR
> setting in the interface configuration file.
> 
> Without this change, when an administrator provides MACADDR in the
> interface configuration file that address will be set in ifup-eth using
> the "ip link set" command.  While this appears to work, any operation
> that updates the OVS configuration will cause the MAC address to revert.
> 
> Persistent MAC addresses must be set using ovs-vsctl.
> 
> (Resubmitted with whitespace and grammar corrections)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at redhat.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at redhat.com>