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 15:46:30 +0000 (08:46 -0700)
commitd40fc57de3a0b57cbf374c5fe511d550acc399ac
treef86921d46f1aa1362108c56a1b71502a32c9ba8d
parentf124389c9c54fbba66f3421448e1134eb5321de0
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