This is from the newest version of the FAQ.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 09:59:15AM +0800, lifuqiong wrote:
>       This faq is keep a long time, have ovs resolve this problem in a
> newer version? I am using version 2.5.0.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: Ben Pfaff [mailto:b...@ovn.org] 
> 发送时间: 2016年8月26日 0:07
> 收件人: lifuqiong
> 抄送: discuss@openvswitch.org
> 主题: Re: [ovs-discuss] OVS bond ports problem, maybe is a bug
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 05:33:33PM +0800, lifuqiong wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >          I create an ovs bridge br0 and bond bond0 with physical NIC 
> > p4p1 and p4p2. The reason I created a bond port is doing link 
> > Aggregate, when sending flow to physical NIC or receiving flow from 
> > physical NIC through Openflow ,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I just need set outport number to bond0's ofport num;  But,  but 
> > there's no ofport num in port bond0,  and having two physical NICs 
> > ofport number instead, why ?  How should I write flow entry with two
> ofport numbers?
> 
> OVS doesn't support directly outputting to a bond.  The FAQ says:
> 
> ### Q: It looks like each of the interfaces in my bonded port shows up
>    as an individual OpenFlow port.  Is that right?
> 
> A: Yes, Open vSwitch makes individual bond interfaces visible as
>    OpenFlow ports, rather than the bond as a whole.  The interfaces
>    are treated together as a bond for only a few purposes:
> 
>    - Sending a packet to the OFPP_NORMAL port.  (When an OpenFlow
>      controller is not configured, this happens implicitly to
>      every packet.)
> 
>    - Mirrors configured for output to a bonded port.
> 
>    It would make a lot of sense for Open vSwitch to present a bond as
>    a single OpenFlow port.  If you want to contribute an
>    implementation of such a feature, please bring it up on the Open
>    vSwitch development mailing list at d...@openvswitch.org.
> 
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