On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 9:26 PM Ilya Maximets <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/25/21 4:28 PM, Frode Nordahl wrote: > > ovs-ctl determines the system FQDN or hostname and records it in > > the `external-ids:hostname` field of the `Open-vSwitch` table on > > system startup if it is not already set. > > > > This value may be consumed by downstream software and having it > > unset or set to a incorrect value could lead to erratic behavior > > of a system. > > > > When a system is configured to use an Open vSwitch controlled > > datapath as its only network connection, the current ordering of > > events would always record a unreliable hostname. > > > > To tackle this problem this patchs adds an optional argument that > > allows starting Open vSwitch without recording the hostname in > > the database as well as a new ctl command to record the hostname > > separately. This command can be called by the system startup > > scripts when the system is ready to collect and record this > > information. > > > > Reported-At: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1915829 > > Signed-off-by: Frode Nordahl <[email protected]> > > --- > > utilities/ovs-ctl.in | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- > > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > > Thanks! > I added a note to the NEWS file and applied to master.
Excellent, thank you for review and merge! > We may consider backports down to 2.13 LTS. Let me know > if it's needed. We will consume this at 2.13 and onwards, so a backport all the way to 2.13 LTS would really be helpful. -- Frode Nordahl > > Best regards, Ilya Maximets. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
