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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:58:05 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Matt Churchyard <matt.churchyard@userve.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD virtualization <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vm-bhyve port upgrade
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Matt Churchyard <matt.churchyard@userve.net
> wrote:

>
> I am now looking at actually implementing static macs for all interfaces,
> as I’d rather guests saw the same mac address every run just in case they
> tie configuration to the mac (important for vm-bhyve as simply starting
> guests in a different order will change what tap devices they get). Also
> tap/slot/func isn’t much of a uniqueness guarantee across multiple hosts.
>
>
Yes, and udev treats MAC as ethX = MAC.  So linux guests using static ip's
will be quite broken unless some more fiddling is done.  Static MAC's
aren't the only way to handle this, but it's the best IMO.



-- 
Adam



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