[ovirt-users] MAC address recycling

Dan Kenigsberg danken at redhat.com
Sat Sep 26 11:01:10 UTC 2015


On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 01:39:42PM +0000, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently experienced an issue with mac address uses in ovirt with foreman[1].
> 
> Bottom line, a mac address was recycled causing an issue where I could not rebuild a host because of a stale DHCP reservation record.
> 
> What is the current behavior regarding the reuse of MAC addresses for new VMs?
> Can I somehow delay a the recycle of a MAC?

Martin, I recall we had a bug asking not to immediately re-use a
recently-released MAC address. Was this possible?



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