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Misleading NetworkInterface configuration #464

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jlkiri opened this issue Nov 26, 2022 · 0 comments
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Misleading NetworkInterface configuration #464

jlkiri opened this issue Nov 26, 2022 · 0 comments

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jlkiri commented Nov 26, 2022

Currently, NetworkInterface.StaticConfiguration.IPConfiguration.IPAddr is of type net.IPNet which, according to the net library, represents

// An IPNet represents an IP network.
type IPNet struct {
	IP   IP     // network number
	Mask IPMask // network mask
}

Note that there is no place to specify an actual IP address in there, only subnet and mask.
If the SDK user uses the convenient net.ParseCIDR() function, the resulting net.IPNet struct can be passed as-is to the firecracker config, but there is NO IP address that can be assigned to the VM's interface. This leads to the situation where the subnet ID (the network number) is assigned to the interface, which is very very wrong.

I believe a different type should be used for this setting.

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