[ovs-dev] Initial set-up with Fedora 17 lost connectivity

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:19:58PM +0200, Gary Kotton wrote:
> I have a host that has 1 NIC (em1). The IP address was received via
> DHCP. After installing openvswitch (openvswitch.x86_64 1.4.0-4.fc17)
> I did the following:
> 
>    ovs-vsctl add-br br-int
>    ovs-vsctl add-port br-int em1

This is also the way that the Linux bridge works: if there is an IP
address on a physical NIC that you then add to a bridge, the IP
address stops working.

It's clearly not nice, but it's been like that for a long time and I'm
not sure what to do about it.