[ovs-dev] [RFC] ofproto/bond: operational vs administratively disabled bond interface

[Flavio Leitner]

Hi,

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:34:19 +0100
Eelco Chaudron <echaudro at redhat.com> wrote:

> Currently OVS does not distinguish between a bond slave being operational
> disabled, i.e. link being down, and administratively disabled.
> 
> Take the example where the administrator disabled a link in a bond,
> "ovs-appctl bond/disable-slave bond0 enp129s0f0", it's automatically
> enabled again due to the fact the link is up.
> 
> I would like to change this behavior such that when disabled trough appctl
> the slave is no longer used until explicitly enabled again via appctl.

Eelco and I discussed this off list and I agree that this sounds like
a bug.  The slave should not be used if the admin has disabled it
regardless of its link state.

-- 
Flavio