On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 01:29:42PM -0700, Guru Shetty wrote:
> On 28 July 2016 at 11:37, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:28:24AM -0700, Nimay Desai wrote:
> > > Added an IPv4 and MAC addresses management system to ovn-northd. When a
> > logical
> > > switch's other_config:subnet field is set, logical ports attached to that
> > > switch that have the keyword "dynamic" in their addresses column will
> > > automatically be allocated a globally unique MAC address/unused IPv4
> > address
> > > within the provided subnet. The allocated address will populate the
> > > dynamic_addresses column. This can be useful for a user who wants to
> > deploy
> > > many VM's or containers with networking capabilities, but does not care
> > about
> > > the specific MAC/IPv4 addresses that are assigned.
> > >
> > > Added tests in ovn.at for ipam.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Nimay Desai <nimaydes...@gmail.com>
> >
> > The code uses the abbreviations 'ipam' and 'macam' a lot.  IPAM is a
> > fairly common term but I don't know what macam stands for.  I think it
> > would be a good idea to explain both terms in comments.
> >
> 
> Do you think this incremental is helpful?

Yes, thanks!
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