cloud-init

Document that network-config MAC addresses should be lower case

Bug #1876941 reported by Dan Watkins on 2020-05-05

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init	Fix Released	High	James Falcon

Bug Description

Currently users may see failures if using upper-case MAC addresses in network configuration, because cloud-init does not appropriately normalise the case of MAC addresses in all situations.

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/network-config-format-v2.html should be updated to (a) only use lower-case MAC addresses, and (b) indicate to users that this is an intentional choice that they need to follow.

(https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1876363 covers fixing the underlying issue, this is strictly about documenting the currently-required input.)

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Chad Smith (chad.smith) wrote on 2021-12-06:

Upstream doc fix landed https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/commit/cd40789a583c38423cea76355b375aa838893292

Changed in cloud-init:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed
assignee:	nobody → James Falcon (falcojr)

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Brett Holman (holmanb) wrote on 2022-02-15: Fixed in cloud-init version 22.1.

This bug is believed to be fixed in cloud-init in version 22.1. If this is still a problem for you, please make a comment and set the state back to New

Thank you.