Comment 5 for bug 1936972

Thanks Bill. I don't happen to know the criteria MAAS uses to put things into bug vs. feature request buckets, so I don't feel like I have the rules for making the (b) argument either way. What we know is that MAAS (and/or its dependencies) assumes that all NICs have static MAC addresses. We're now seeing that assumption be proven incorrect, and it's causing MAAS to not support industry standard servers from large HW vendors that otherwise work fine with Ubuntu.

To be clear, I'm not asking that MAAS learn to model these devices. Maybe there's a reason it could/should, but that certainly seems like a new feature. Rather, I'm asking that MAAS not fail deployments due to their presence. Ignoring these easily-detected (Comment #3) devices during commissioning seems like a reasonable fix IMO.