@EddieJennings said in MacVTap Modes:

One option I didn't see in the redhat doc was openvswitch. Don't they support it?

The link I posted was for RHEL 6. I just now saw that RHEL 8's documentation is online. I glanced through it and didn't see that mentioned. I'll read it more closely tomorrow.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/configuring-virtual-machine-network-connections_configuring-and-managing-virtualization

There's no mention of openvswitch anywhere in that document. I am aware of XenServer and XCP-ng uses it by default. So its possible RHEL just prefers using macvlan/macvtap instead of openvswitch.

Definitely most everyone that I have seen is on .local. It was the advised standard for so long and it was so during the era when the majority of companies moved to AD. Even though the new standard has been around for a little bit now, nearly every company I deal with moved to AD prior to that time period. New companies get new AD, obviously, but as a market percentage they aren't so much yet, that I've seen.