Can you please open an RFE for us to review? YANIV LAVI SENIOR TECHNICAL PRODUCT MANAGER Red Hat Israel Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com/> 34 Jerusalem Road, Building A, 1st floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 ylavi(a)redhat.com T: +972-9-7692306/8272306 F: +972-9-7692223 IM: ylavi <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted> @redhatnews <https://twitter.com/redhatnews> Red Hat <https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat> Red Hat <https://www.facebook.com/RedHatInc> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > The default range went through several changes during the lifetime of > the project - from being small and constant until 3.2, to small and > random in 3.3 until 3.5, back to fixed and small in 3.6, slightly > enlarged (to 1024 addresses) in current master. > > In all cases, the address range was taken from the IANA-assigned range > 001A4A of Qumranet (now Red Hat) [1]. > > I suggest to: > > 1. Default to a random range again > - So that two or (a few) more setups using the same network segment > are less likely to use the same range > > 2. One in the locally-administered address range [2] > - So that we have a larger address range > > 3. Make it a bit larger, say 65000 addresses > - So that admins do not have to handle this manually, even for large > setups, unless they have specific needs > > If there is objection to (2.), we can still have the others - among > the 24 bits in the 001A4A prefix range, choose among the first 8 a > random value during engine-setup, and have the pool of size 16 bits. > > Comments/ideas/etc. are welcome. > > Best regards, > > [1] https://regauth.standards.ieee.org/standards-ra-web/pub/view.html > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Universal_vs._local > -- > Didi > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >