<div dir="ltr">On 9 January 2014 22:50, Ian Wells <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ijw.ubuntu@cack.org.uk" target="_blank">ijw.ubuntu@cack.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On the flip side, vendor_id and product_id might not be sufficient. Suppose I have two identical NICs, one for nova internal use and the second for guest tenants? So, bus numbering may be required. <div class="im">
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</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I totally concur on this - with network devices in particular the PCI path is important because you don't accidentally want to grab the Openstack control network device ;)<br>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Redundant statement is redundant. Sorry, yes, this has been a pet bugbear of mine. It applies equally to provider networks on the networking side of thing, and, where Neutron is not your network device manager for a PCI device, you may want several device groups bridged to different segments. Network devices are one case of a category of device where there's something about the device that you can't detect that means it's not necessarily interchangeable with its peers.<br>
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