[ovs-dev] Bug#860786: Bug#860786: README.Debian: include IPv6 in examples for /etc/network/interfaces

[Guru Shetty]

On 19 April 2017 at 23:00, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.pro> wrote:

> Package: openvswitch-switch
> Version: 2.3.0+git20140819-3+deb8u1
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Looking at the examples for /etc/network/interfaces, none of them
> include IPv6.
>
> I've tried configuring it using the example below and it appears to be
> working fine in a dual stack DHCP environment.
>
> In another environment, I used an "up ip addr add [ipv6 addr] ..."
> command in the inet stanza
>
> Please confirm if the inet6 stanza is fully supported and if this is the
> right way to use it and consider adding it to README.Debian:
>
>
>
>
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto ovsbr0
>

You will need an extra line below like this:
allow-ovs  ovsbr0

> iface ovsbr0 inet dhcp
>         ovs_type OVSBridge
>         ovs_ports eth0
>
>
same here..

> iface ovsbr0 inet6 dhcp
>         ovs_type OVSBridge
>         ovs_ports eth0
>
> allow-ovsbr0 eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
>         ovs_bridge ovsbr0
>         ovs_type OVSPort
>

Overall this looks like a comment rather than a patch. Will you be sending
a patch to dev at openvswitch.org ?


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