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I am throwing in a vote of for openstack foundation acquiring a unique OUI
for users to use if they wish.

-Matt

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Shake Chen <shake.chen at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>  On 10/20/2012 07:23 PM, Tim Bell wrote:
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>>  ** **
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>> If we purchase an OUI, is there a mechanism within Quantum to only
>> allocate Mac addresses with that prefix ?
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>> At the moment Quantum enables the user to define a base MAC address. That
>> is the user can update the configuration file. The user selects a base MAC
>> and the MAC's are allocated in that range. I think that this gives us a lot
>> of flexibility.
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>> Please see below for the configuration options.
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>> # Base MAC address. The first 3 octets will remain unchanged. If the
>> # 4h octet is not 00, it will also used. The others will be
>> # randomly generated.
>> # 3 octet
>> # base_mac = fa:16:3e:00:00:00
>> # 4 octet
>> # base_mac = fa:16:3e:4f:00:00
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> as my know, the  fa:16:3e would on behalf of a company.
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>> If I recall correctly this is hard coded in nova networking.
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>> Thanks
>> Gary
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>>
>>  ****
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>> ** **
>>
>> Tim****
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>> *From:* openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net [
>> mailto:openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net<openstack-bounces+tim.bell=cern.ch at lists.launchpad.net>]
>> *On Behalf Of *Salvatore Orlando
>> *Sent:* 20 October 2012 10:20
>> *To:* Vinay Bannai
>> *Cc:* openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] Use of MAC addresses in Openstack VMs****
>>
>> ** **
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>> Hi Vinay,****
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>> I understand your concerns about conflicts with already assigned OUIs.***
>> *
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>> It is however my opinion that it is not up to the Openstack Foundation,
>> but to entities deploying Openstack, to buy MAC OUIs.****
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>> As regards Quantum, we should ensure the default MAC range we use is
>> locally assigned; unfortunately I do not know enough about nova-network.*
>> ***
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>> Also, it is my opinion that a locally-assigned OUI would be sufficient
>> for many use cases, without the need for a globally assigned one.****
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>> ** **
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>> Regards,****
>>
>> Salvatore****
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>> ** **
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>> On 20 October 2012 04:05, Vinay Bannai <vbannai at gmail.com> wrote:****
>>
>> I was talking to Nachi and Gary during the Quantum design session about
>> the need to have a proper MAC OUI allocation scheme for Openstack
>> development folks. They suggested that I send it out for wider discussion
>> on the mailing list. ****
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>> ** **
>>
>> It turns out that it would be useful for the Openstack foundation to
>> apply for a MAC OUI from IEEE that can be used for development purposes and
>> testing. This way we don't unwittingly use someone else MAC allocation.
>> Here are the details ****
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>> http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/oui/index.html****
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>> ** **
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>> The cost to get a OUI allocation is around $2000 dollars. Remember if we
>> use random MAC OUI,  the actual owners can assert their legal claim on the
>> MAC address in the event of a conflict now that we have support for more
>> sophisticated tunnels that allow connections from public and private
>> clouds. ****
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>> ** **
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>> Comments welcome. ****
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>> ** **
>>
>> Vinay****
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