Chapter 23. MAC Address Pools
23.1. MAC Address Pool Elements
The
macpools collection provides information about the MAC address pools in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment. An API user accesses this information through the rel="macpools" link obtained from the entry point URI. The following table shows specific elements contained in a MAC address pool resource representation.
Table 23.1. MAC address pool elements
| Element | Type | Description | Properties |
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name | string | A plain text, human-readable name for the MAC address pool. | 
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description | string | A plain text, human-readable description of the MAC address pool. | |
allow_duplicates | Boolean: true or false | Defines whether duplicate MAC addresses are permitted in the pool. If not specified, allow_duplicates defaults to false. | |
default_pool | Boolean: true or false | Defines whether this is the default pool. If not specified, default_pool defaults to false. | 
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ranges | complex | Defines the range of MAC addresses for the pool. Multiple ranges can be defined within the ranges element. |
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