On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 04:01:16PM -0800, Yiannis Yiakoumis wrote: > I run ovs at an AP and observe some weird dhcp behavior. > > The AP has two ports (WAN -> eth0, LAN -> eth1). Only the wan port is under > ovs; the LAN is not, and there is also no cable attached to it. OVS is > configured for in-band control. > > br0 inherits the MAC address of the wan interface. My DHCP server has > static MAC-based configuration for the wan address and my rest-of-network > configuration ensures that packets from the WAN interface will only go in > this server. Occasionally, I observe the following behavior : > > When the AP boots and before I get any connection to the controller, I see > dhcp requests coming out from both MAC addresses (WAN and LAN).
I think that's the default behavior of dhclient, when invoked without any command line arguments: it sends out a DHCP request on every interface. But if you tell it a particular interface, it only sends a request on that interface. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
