Maybe you want it to be an "internal" port: ovs-vsctl set interface <name> type=internal
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 02:17:03PM +0100, Riccardo Ravaioli wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I have a related question. I do the following in order to have a bridge br > with ports 0.br, 1.br... and later add existing interfaces to such ports: > > ovs-vsctl add-br br > ovs-vsctl add-port br 0.br > ovs-vsctl --id=@ifce create interface name=eth1 -- set port 0.br > interface=@ifce > > When I execute the "ovs-vsctl add-port' command above I get an error saying > that 0.br doesn't correspond to any interface: > *ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up '0.switch5': could not open > network device 0.switch5 (No such device).* > > Can I pass an argument to "ovs-vsctl add-port" to tell OVS that 0.br is > just a switch port and not a real existing interface? > > > ______ > > > On 15 January 2018 at 20:19, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:50:52AM -0800, Fred Licht wrote: > > > Is it possible to have an OVS port ‘name’ differ from the interface > > name? > > > > > > Bridge ovs-ha-sw > > > Port ovs-ha-sw > > > Interface ovs-ha-sw > > > type: internal > > > Port "bond1" > > > Interface "bond1" > > > > > > To have the effect of: > > > > > > Bridge ovs-ha-sw > > > Port ovs-ha-sw > > > Interface ovs-ha-sw > > > type: internal > > > Port “east-west" > > > Interface "bond1" > > > > You can do it, but since port names are immutable it has to happen at > > the time you add the port. For example: > > > > blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl add-br br0 > > blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 p0 -- set > > port p0 name=asdf > > blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl show > > 8b75cccb-f1eb-4e75-ac67-57ebac4e8432 > > Bridge "br0" > > Port "br0" > > Interface "br0" > > type: internal > > Port asdf > > Interface "p0" > > blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > disc...@openvswitch.org > > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > disc...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss