On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 03:44:44PM +0000, Anoob Soman wrote: > > On 25/03/14 15:29, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Anoob Soman <anoob.so...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Does rhel openvswitch deployments required fake bond interfaces to be > >>created. rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs uses --fake-iface for > >>creating bonds (add-bond). I have sent a patch "[PATCH] rhel: Remove > >>creation of fake bond interface" to remove --fake-iface and add --may-exist > >>instead. Ignore my patch if fake bond interfaces are required. > >The "--fake-iface" as an option in the RHEL ifup script came with its > >first version. Does its presence hurt any of your use cases? > No, it doesn't. But, AFAIK --fake-iface was add to support older > version of XenServer requiring a bond interface for some legacy > reasons, newer version of XenSever doesn't use --fake-iface. This > means --fake-iface is not used by anyone (and hoping rhel doesn't > need it either), and can be removed from code.
I think OVS still supports XenServer old enough that --fake-iface is needed. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
