[ovs-discuss] Bonding problems with redundant physical switching

[Christian Fischer]

On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:39:06 Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:37:13PM +0000, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > > I was under the impression that those corner cases were problems
> > > specific to the type of bonding that OVS already implements; that is,
> > > bonding where the first-hop switch was unaware of and not participating
> > > in the bond.  Doesn't LACP, etc. avoid that kind of problem, acting
> > > much more like a single link than SLB does?
> > 
> > Yes, LACP should be much more resilient to these types of issues.
> > However, I don't think that LACP will help in this particular
> > situation since the physical switches are cheap and not stacked.
> > Linux supports a half dozen different types of bonding though (at
> > least some which probably have issues with OVS) and apparently they
> > don't work together at all on any released kernel version, so I
> > wouldn't say that it is either supported or encouraged.
> 
> OK, great, agreed on all points here.

Do you have access to the openvswitch-xcp.spec?
If yes, can I get it please to verify if there are more changes like path 
fixes?