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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 29 May 2014 11:26:16 Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 27/05/14 16:02, Dean Henrichsmeyer wrote:
> >  We're fine with such
> > 
> > use being explicit - meaning you allocate explicitly by asking MAAS for it
> > and you deallocate it explicitly by telling MAAS you don't need it
> > anymore.
> 
> That's what you'll get, yes. Not sure about the MAC for those IPs
> though; do you prefer it as a new generated MAC for the host? Or an
> additional IP for the existing NIC MAC?
> 
> Mark

I had the same question.  I was thinking of modelling this as an IP that 
connects to multiple Node MACs, but I want to make sure that fits the use case 
first.

At the API level, you'd say "I want a new IP for these MAC(s) on these/this 
Node(s)"

This covers the case where you want a single VIP for HA across many nodes.

On the other hand, you might say you just want an extra IP and don't care 
about that, in which case we'll model accordingly.