On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Salvatore Orlando
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Jesse,
>>
>> I apologise I did not configure correctly the vswitch on the Ubuntu machine
>> running 1.2.
>> The behaviour seems anyway confirmed in 1.0.99, but I suspect that's
>> unsupported now.
>>
>> Anyway, is the behaviour when the interface name exceeds the 16 character
>> limit documented?
>> Ovs-vsctl did not raise any error message.
>
> It's a standard limit of network devices in Linux.
Also, the description of the "name" column in the Interface table recommends
keeping the length to around 8 bytes:
name: string (must be unique within table) Interface name. Should be
alphanumeric and no more than about 8 bytes long. May be the same
as the port name, for non-bonded ports. Must otherwise be unique
among the names of ports, interfaces, and bridges on a host.
Although we're probably not entirely successful, we try not to put too much
Linux-specific information in the ovs-vswitchd.conf.db man page, since OVS is
ported to other systems.
--Justin
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