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["Burney, Jeffrey P (N-Engineering Service Professionals)" <jeffrey.p.burney@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rob,

We just started looking at Quantum and it does appear to do what we want.

Also found this https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/configurable-mac-addresses
which also suggests Quantum.

Thanks for the help,
Jeff


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert 

> Hi Stackers,
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> We have a little test lab where we are working with puppet and OpenStack.
> Here's what we are trying to do on Folsom (currently not using Quantum).
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> From a puppet master (also running dhcp, dns, kickstart), issue a 
> command to OpenStack controller to boot a small pxe boot image.  We 
> would like to inject a MAC address into the newly instantiated VM so 
> that when It goes to our dhcp server, it will get the correct IP and 
> be built by our kickstart server.
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> We've looked at node_openstack but it does not have inject a MAC.
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> I'd imagine this has been done before I just can't find anything online.
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> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The MAC address used is generated dynamically by nova and then handed out to either nova-network or Quantum. You may be able to manually generate the MAC by using Quantum and making a call to Quantum to create a port with that MAC, then passing the port id to nova boot.

HTH,
Rob

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