[ovs-discuss] The limit of Open vSwitch obstruct us migrate from bridge-utils

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 04:03:34PM +0800, Dongsheng Song wrote:
> From the website of Open vSwitch, and our testing, when a physical NIC
> used by Open vSwitch, the host can not use this NIC anymore.
> 
> Most servers only have 2 NIC, they both must to be used as data link
> when fail-over required or 2 sub-net required scene.
> 
> Then we have no management NIC available. But bridge-utils allow us
> use the same NIC for both data link and management link.
> 
> PS: We use kernel 3.2 and Open vSwitch 1.4.1 for testing.

OVS is at least as flexible as the bridge.  Please tell us specifically
what you want, what you actually did, and what happened.