Comment 5 for bug 1387239

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1387239] Re: MAAS does not provide an API for reserving a static IP for a given MAC address

On Thursday 30 Oct 2014 01:39:31 you wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Julian Edwards <email address hidden>
> wrote:
> > Are you using cloud-init to start the new VMs? If so, you can pass the
> > IP (and netmask etc) to that and avoid DHCP altogether.
>
> I wish. VMs are black boxes from SDN vendors.

Darn! Ok, thanks.

So basically we need an additional IP reservation type that also writes a host
map to the DHCP server. Or perhaps just change the existing API so that
there's an optional mac parameter, which if present causes the host map to be
written.