Code review comment for lp:~tpatil/nova/add-options-network-create-os-apis

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> > 2) Specify fixed IP address to the vnic at the boot time. When you launch a
> server, you can specify the fixed IP address you want to be assigned to the
> vnic from a particular network. If this fixed IP address is already in use, it
> will give exception.
>
> For this to be useful, it seems like we need to recycle ip addresses more
> quickly. I'm wondering about switching to expiring dnsmasq whenever an ip is
> released. This requires building the dhcp_release script that is in dnsmasq
> contrib and using it to manually release ips when they are disassociated.
It's a good idea. I think this can be worked upon later after this code is merged into trunk.