Bug#860786: [ovs-dev] Bug#860786: README.Debian: include IPv6 in examples for /etc/network/interfaces

[Guru Shetty]

On 19 April 2017 at 23:00, Daniel Pocock  wrote:

> Package: openvswitch-switch
> Version: 2.3.0+git20140819-3+deb8u1
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Looking at the examples for /etc/network/interfaces, none of them
> include IPv6.
>
> I've tried configuring it using the example below and it appears to be
> working fine in a dual stack DHCP environment.
>
> In another environment, I used an "up ip addr add [ipv6 addr] ..."
> command in the inet stanza
>
> Please confirm if the inet6 stanza is fully supported and if this is the
> right way to use it and consider adding it to README.Debian:
>
>
>
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto ovsbr0
>

You will need an extra line below like this:
allow-ovs  ovsbr0

> iface ovsbr0 inet dhcp
> ovs_type OVSBridge
> ovs_ports eth0
>
>
same here..

> iface ovsbr0 inet6 dhcp
> ovs_type OVSBridge
> ovs_ports eth0
>
> allow-ovsbr0 eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
> ovs_bridge ovsbr0
> ovs_type OVSPort
>

Overall this looks like a comment rather than a patch. Will you be sending
a patch to d...@openvswitch.org ?


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Bug#860786: [ovs-dev] Bug#860786: README.Debian: include IPv6 in examples for /etc/network/interfaces

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 08:00:20AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> Package: openvswitch-switch
> Version: 2.3.0+git20140819-3+deb8u1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Looking at the examples for /etc/network/interfaces, none of them
> include IPv6.
> 
> I've tried configuring it using the example below and it appears to be
> working fine in a dual stack DHCP environment.
> 
> In another environment, I used an "up ip addr add [ipv6 addr] ..."
> command in the inet stanza
> 
> Please confirm if the inet6 stanza is fully supported and if this is the
> right way to use it and consider adding it to README.Debian:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> auto ovsbr0
> iface ovsbr0 inet dhcp
>   ovs_type OVSBridge
> ovs_ports eth0
> 
> iface ovsbr0 inet6 dhcp
> ovs_type OVSBridge
> ovs_ports eth0
> 
> allow-ovsbr0 eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
> ovs_bridge ovsbr0
> ovs_type OVSPort

I think there is a missing space between "allow-ovs" and "br0" above.

Guru, do these examples look correct otherwise?  Would it make sense to
include an inet6 example like the one above?

Thanks,

Ben.