rhel: support persistent mac addresses on OVS bridges
authorLars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 May 2014 21:14:35 +0000 (17:14 -0400)
committerBen Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Tue, 27 May 2014 15:47:01 +0000 (08:47 -0700)
commitb94e8ba3a9e8df26c408a0a156665c205e4dde2a
tree31e48d104fbae9bb35390aa8748b51138331779f
parent3f0e42704087fb3f72f90ac1e095a55659aeb62b
rhel: support persistent mac addresses on OVS bridges

This patch adds support for RHEL-derived systems (RHEL/CentOS/Fedora)
for setting the persistent MAC address of an OVS bridge via the MACADDR
setting in the interface configuration file.

Without this change, when an administrator provides MACADDR in the
interface configuration file that address will be set in ifup-eth using
the "ip link set" command.  While this appears to work, any operation
that updates the OVS configuration will cause the MAC address to revert.

Persistent MAC addresses must be set using ovs-vsctl.

(Resubmitted with whitespace and grammar corrections)

Signed-off-by: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Acked-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs