Aaron Conole via dev <[email protected]> writes:

> When the 'mirror-to' option was conceived, it was intended to allow users
> the ability to arbitrarily build their own ports to use the mirror port
> rather than always using an algorithmically defined mirror port.  However,
> the mirror port code never accommodated a port that the user defined as
> part of an OVS bridge.  This could be useful for running against all kinds
> of OVS specific ports.
>
> Adjust the 'mirror-to' option so that when the user specifies a port, the
> utility searches through system interfaces, as well as the OVS DB.  This
> means that we need to drop the port_exists() check for the mirror port,
> but that should be okay.
>
> Reported-at: 
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2025-March/053508.html
> Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-1194
> Reported-by: Jun Wang <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email protected]>
> ---

Thanks Mike, Eelco, and Jun.  I've applied this to main.

_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to