[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/5] xenserver: Implement missing interface-reconfigure settings.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Wed Mar 3 19:08:52 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Oh yes, I didn't mean to imply that we don't need this, just that it might
not fix the entire issue.
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