[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/5] xenserver: Implement missing interface-reconfigure settings.
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Wed Mar 3 19:03:55 UTC 2010
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 01:58:11PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>
> > These settings are supported by the bridge, and they were supported
> > earlier by the vswitch, but support regressed when OVSDB was initially
> > introduced because at first ovs-vsctl did not support these settings.
> > This commit restores support.
> >
> > Related to bug #2430, #2442.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> >
>
> Do you think this will fix the issue in #2430 where the bridge MAC address
> is different from that of the underlying physical device? It seems like we
> should be able to determine the address ourselves without any help from
> XAPI. Though it looked like there was some funny stuff going on in the
> brcompatd log, so maybe the bridges just weren't configured correctly.
Hmm. You have a point. There might be more going on than simply
failing to honor the MAC addresses set by XAPI. But I do know from
previous QA cycles that we must honor the MAC addresses requested by
XAPI (especially for bonds), so I think that this is helpful regardless.
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