Hi Tomoe, This is definitely a reasonable thing to want. One of the things we'll be discussing at the summit is a plan for merging Melange and Quantum, in which case, the "attributes" of a port may well include addresses that Melange has allocated, including MAC + v4/v6 addresses. This would make a Quantum Port somewhat similar to an Amazon Elastic Network Interface (ENI).
Otherwise, as Sumit points out, the Quantum API can be extended for plugin specific properties. Dan On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Tomoe Sugihara <to...@midokura.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just looked at quantum code and leaned that quantum port doesn't > care about the mac addresses. > I think it's true that switch port doesn't necessarily have mac > address in general, but normally switches learn mac addresses per > port. > So I thought it would be useful for some implementation of plugins, > for example to optimize mac learning, to get mac address as a > parameter for create port API. > > Was there any related discussion about this? I'd appreciate any > comments on this. > > Cheers, > Tomoe > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~netstack > Post to : netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~netstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Wendlandt Nicira Networks: www.nicira.com twitter: danwendlandt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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