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Hi stakers,

We’re trying to replace dnsmasq-supplied DHCP for tenant VMs with a vendor’s baremetal DHCP server. In order to pass DHCP request to a vendor’s server and send DHCP response back to VM we decided to add another OVS bridge (we called it br-dhcp), connected to integration bridge (br-int), which will have OVS rules connecting VM’s MAC address with br-dhcp port. In this scenario DHCP response will only find it’s way back to a VM if VM has globally-unique MAC address. 

My questions are: 
is having code which generates globally-unique MACs for VMs acceptable by the community at all?
is there a better solution to the problem (we also tried using dnsmasq as a DHCP relay there)?

Thanks,
Roman
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