[Engine-devel] MAC address validation

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Mon May 21 07:25:28 UTC 2012


On 05/21/2012 10:18 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a bug open on engine to validate MAC address: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756437
> The format supported by engine (for Ethernet) is FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF (F 
> is any hex char).

It's not all F's: I suspect there are some reserved ones which 
libvirt/qemu won't allow to use (but I never remember which. I suspect 
00: ... doesn't work, but I may be wrong).

>
> Is there any other format we must support?

Good timing. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=823397 
which was opened a second ago, for Infiniband HCA's MAC address.
Y.

>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
>
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