Default MAC address generation is not random and should be stated in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Gianluca Borello <g.borello@gmail.com>
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Gianluca Borello 2015-05-09 22:36:16 -07:00
parent 340fd140e6
commit e324f51e5b
2 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ func Allocate(id, requestedMac, requestedIP, requestedIPv6 string) (*network.Set
return nil, err
}
// If no explicit mac address was given, generate a random one.
// If no explicit mac address was given, generate one from the IP address.
if mac, err = net.ParseMAC(requestedMac); err != nil {
mac = generateMacAddr(ip)
}

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@ -216,9 +216,9 @@ networking. In cases like this, you would perform I/O through files or
Your container will use the same DNS servers as the host by default, but
you can override this with `--dns`.
By default a random MAC is generated. You can set the container's MAC address
explicitly by providing a MAC via the `--mac-address` parameter (format:
`12:34:56:78:9a:bc`).
By default, the MAC address is generated using the IP address allocated to the
container. You can set the container's MAC address explicitly by providing a
MAC address via the `--mac-address` parameter (format:`12:34:56:78:9a:bc`).
Supported networking modes are: