Re: [Netstack] Mac address in quantum port

2012-03-11 Thread Tomoe Sugihara
Hi Sumit, Dan, Thank you for your feedback. I look forward to the discussion at the summit. Also will take a look at API extension. Thanks, Tomoe On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Dan Wendlandt wrote: > Hi Tomoe, > > This is definitely a reasonable thing to want.  One of the things we'll be > di

Re: [Netstack] Mac address in quantum port

2012-03-11 Thread Dan Wendlandt
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 mak

Re: [Netstack] Mac address in quantum port

2012-03-11 Thread Sumit Naiksatam (snaiksat)
Sumit. > -Original Message- > From: netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:netstack-bounces+snaiksat=cisco@lists.launchpad.net] On > Behalf Of Tomoe Sugihara > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:02 PM > To: netstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject:

[Netstack] Mac address in quantum port

2012-03-11 Thread Tomoe Sugihara
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 implementat