On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
> suppose I have an environment with self hosted engine environment in 4.1
>
> How is it generated the hw address of the virtual nic of the engine vm
> when I deploy using cockpit?
>
> Suppose on a lan I already have a self hosted engine environment and I'm
> going to create another one on the same lan, is there any risck of hw
> address collision for the engine?
>
> I know that from inside web admin console I can then set the hw address
> ranges for the VMs, but what about the mac of the engine vm itself?
>
> At the moment I have only lan access and so crosschecked an RHV 4.1
> environment and I see that the engine has hw addr 00:16:3e:7c:65:34 (a
> lookup seems to associate to "Xensource, Inc.") while the VMs have their hw
> addr in the range 00:1a:4a:16:01:51 - 00:1a:4a:16:01:e6 (eg
> the 00:1a:4a:16:01:56) (a lookup seems to associate to "Qumranet Inc.".
>
> Does this mean that the engine has a sort of dedicated range? Any risk of
> collision or is a query on the lan done before assigning it?
>

It has been discussed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1244502

In a few worlds: the proposed HE MAC address are explicitly on a different
range just to minimize collision risks on complex scenarios.


>
> BTW: probably the range for engine VM hw addr has to be put in Qumranet
> too...?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gianluca
>
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