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  2. OCPBUGS-36734

identical MAC address being assigned to VFs during startup causing communication issue.

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    • When the SR-IOV Operator creates virtual functions after a node reboot there is a minimal chance of a race condition that will make the operator allocate the same MAC address on two different virtual functions
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      This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-36509. The following is the description of the original issue:
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      This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-33137. The following is the description of the original issue:
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      Description of problem:

      During startup the VFs are being assigned identical MACs &further being allocated by Multus to pods resulting in communication problem.

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

      with Intel E810-C nic on OCP v4.14

      How reproducible:

      Need to check

      Steps to Reproduce:

      1. configure VFs in netdevice & reboot
2. Check the boot logs or journalctl logs to see Vf being assigned same MAC
3.

      Actual results:

      I can see VF with duplicate MACs in sosreport.
    
         vf 1     link/ether 5e:6c:b2:9f:ba:4a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    vf 13     link/ether 5e:6c:b2:9f:ba:4a brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust on
    vf 12     link/ether 22:9d:7f:36:76:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off
    vf 36     link/ether 22:9d:7f:36:76:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff, spoof checking on, link-state auto, trust off

      Expected results:

      Fs with identical MAC so the communicaton works normally

      Additional info:

      1) As a workaround, I have suggested them to turn off SpoofCheck & this helped them.
2) Also, I can confirm that the application pod isn't setting the MAC as their application logs doesn't have anything like that & SriovNetworks have dynamic mac assignment capability disabled.
3) We have a Slack Channel already for the issue.--> https://redhat.enterprise.slack.com/archives/C0716KYNW0H

              bnemeth@redhat.com Balazs Nemeth
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              Zhanqi Zhao Zhanqi Zhao
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