On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Tim Spriggs <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Gurucharan Shetty <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Does this help for your use case? >> > http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2012-May/016972.html >> > >> > The scripts are all there. But, someone needs to call it. >> > >> > ifup --allow=ovs $list_of_bridges >> >> Interesting. I haven't applied this to my system but if I am >> understanding it correctly, this actually configures OVS on boot via >> /etc/network/interfaces. I'm still not convinced it would work since >> /etc/init.d/networking is called before openvswitch is running. > > It would work if you call the "--allow=ovs" command in > /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch. > But it is probably a problem if you have some dependent directories mounted > through network and you want have all network interfaces through OVS. > >> I like >> the idea of configuring openvswitch in this manner however it would >> kill any ability to make permanent changes via the ovs-* commands >> which is a paradigm shift from what I have gathered from the >> documentation. > > This is true. During every boot/shutdown, interfaces are created and > destroyed. > > >> >> Maybe I am wrong but it seems like the expected >> workflow is something on the order of: >> >> 0) Install OVS >> 1) Configure OVS resources (using: ovs-vsctl ...) >> 2) Configure /etc/network/interfaces to generically reference OVS >> resources >> 3) Cross fingers and reboot >> >> The above would modify it to: >> >> 0) Install OVS >> 1) Configure /etc/network/interfaces to configure OVS >> 2) Cross fingers and reboot >> >> Thus eliminating any direct interaction with OVS. > > If I understand you correctly, you would like it if the permanent nature of > changes > done through ovs-vsctl manually after a boot should remain through boot > cycles. > And when new bridges are created, you go and look up /etc/network/interfaces > for any > post creation commands. I am not aware of any way you can do this right now. >
That's exactly right. I guess I will architect my system differently then. Thanks for the help! -Tim _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
