[ovs-dev] exporting port-to-ifindex mapping

[Neil Mckee]

Hello All,

It would be helpful if ovs-vsctl(1) had a way to write out the netdev ifIndex numbers, where applicable,  of the bridge ports.    This would help to harmonize integration with SNMP, sFlow, LLDP and more.

Could it be an extra column in the output from "ovs-vsctl list Port" ?   Or a key-value pair in the "External-IDs" column?

It seems maybe not because everything in the database is read-write,  and this would be a read-only column...

So perhaps there is another mechanism?

This has come up before:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/sflow/UXK6REbrkYI

Regards,
Neil

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Neil McKee
InMon Corp.
http://www.inmon.com