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network-offering: notes on vmware specific options (#242)
* network-offering: notes on vmware specific options Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com> * fix Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com> * setting not settings Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com> * fix Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishek.mrt22@gmail.com>
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For more information on VPCs, see `“About Virtual
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Private Clouds” <networking_and_traffic.html#about-virtual-private-clouds>`_.
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- **Promiscuous Mode**. Applicable for guest networks on VMware hypervisor only. It accepts the following values for desired behaviour of the network elements:
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*Reject* - The switch drops any outbound frame from a virtual machine adapter with a source MAC address that is different from the one in the .vmx configuration file.
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*Accept* - The switch does not perform filtering, and permits all outbound frames.
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*None* - Default to value from global setting - ``network.promiscuous.mode``.
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- **Forged Transmits**. Applicable for guest networks on VMware hypervisor only. It accepts the following values for desired behaviour of the network elements:
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*Reject* - The switch drops any outbound frame from a virtual machine adapter with a source MAC address that is different from the one in the .vmx configuration file.
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*Accept* - The switch does not perform filtering, and permits all outbound frames.
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*None* - Default to value from global setting - ``network.forged.transmits``.
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- **MAC Address Changes**. Applicable for guest networks on VMware hypervisor only. It accepts the following values for desired behaviour of the network elements:
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*Reject* - If the guest OS changes the effective MAC address of the virtual machine to a value that is different from the MAC address of the VM network adapter (set in the .vmx configuration file), the switch drops all inbound frames to the adapter.
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If the guest OS changes the effective MAC address of the virtual machine back to the MAC address of the VM network adapter, the virtual machine receives frames again.
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*Accept* - If the guest OS changes the effective MAC address of the virtual machine to a value that is different from the MAC address of the VM network adapter, the switch allows frames to the new address to pass.
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*None* - Default to value from global setting - ``network.mac.address.changes``.
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- **MAC Learning**. Applicable for guest networks on VMware hypervisor only with VMware Distributed Virtual Switches version 6.6.0 & above and vSphere version 6.7 & above. It accepts the following values for desired behaviour of the network elements:
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*Reject* - Network connectivity for multiple MAC address behind a single vNIC will not work.
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*Accept* - Enables network connectivity for multiple MAC addresses behind a single vNIC.
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*None* - Default to value from global setting - ``network.mac.learning``.
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- **Supported Services**. Select one or more of the possible network
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services. For some services, you must also choose the service
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provider; for example, if you select Load Balancer, you can choose

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