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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed May 29 00:01:05 UTC 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:17:39PM -0700, Neil Mckee wrote:
> 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 would be easy enough to add it to the "status" column,
e.g. status:ifindex.  It might even be reasonable to add a standalone
"ifindex" column, since ifindex is a pretty universal concept.  I
think I lean that way.

Are you willing and able to propose a patch?



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