[ovs-dev] rhel ifup-ovs script add-bond with --fake-iface

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Mar 25 16:07:30 UTC 2014


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 03:44:44PM +0000, Anoob Soman wrote:
> 
> On 25/03/14 15:29, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Anoob Soman <anoob.soman at citrix.com> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Does rhel openvswitch deployments required fake bond interfaces to be
> >>created. rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs uses --fake-iface for
> >>creating bonds (add-bond). I have sent a patch "[PATCH] rhel: Remove
> >>creation of fake bond interface" to remove --fake-iface and add --may-exist
> >>instead. Ignore my patch if fake bond interfaces are required.
> >The "--fake-iface" as an option in the RHEL ifup script came with its
> >first version. Does its presence hurt any of your use cases?
> No, it doesn't. But, AFAIK --fake-iface was add to support older
> version of XenServer requiring a bond interface for some legacy
> reasons, newer version of XenSever doesn't use --fake-iface. This
> means --fake-iface is not used by anyone (and hoping rhel doesn't
> need it either), and can be removed from code.

I think OVS still supports XenServer old enough that --fake-iface is
needed.



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