[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/2] ovn: Add administrative state to logical ports.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:18:57PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 06/23/2015 02:22 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > While working on OpenStack Neutron integration for OVN, I came across a small
> > feature gap.  The Neutron API supports setting a port as administratively down.
> > One way to implement that would be to delete ports from OVN while
> > administratively down.  However, it seemed to me that it would be nice to keep
> > the list of ports that currently exist in sync between the CMS (Neutron in this
> > case) and OVN.  This patch is a first attempt at supporting this OVN by updating
> > the Pipeline to drop packets to/from a port that is administratively down.
> > 
> >  [PATCH 1/2] ovn: Add logical port 'enabled' state.
> >  [PATCH 2/2] ovn: Add get/set-enabled to ovn-nbctl.
> > 
> >  northd/ovn-northd.c |   14 +++++++++---
> >  ovn-nb.ovsschema    |    1 
> >  ovn-nb.xml          |    7 ++++++
> >  ovn-nbctl.8.xml     |   13 +++++++++++
> >  ovn-nbctl.c         |   59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  5 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> After some more looking around, it seems the appropriate way to do this
> is with the equivalent of "ovs-ofctl mod-port".  I'll look into how to
> do that some more.

I'm happy enough to have this concept at the OVN level.  I don't want
Neutron to have to talk to OpenFlow at all, if OVN is in the picture.