[ovs-discuss] Bridging OVS bridges

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:37:28PM +0200, Arno Toell wrote:
> OVS won't allow me to add the same interface to more than one bridge.
> Now, how to achieve what I want then? I realize I could use a virtual
> machine for each switch and add the virtual machine interfaces, but that
> seems overkill.

Use a veth device or a patch port.

> semi-related: I noticed, OVS supports OpenFlow 1.0 only, however there
> are OF 1.1 proof of concept implementations for OF 1.1 in OVS on [1]. Is
> there a specific reason why this never was merged?

Among other reasons, it deleted all the OpenFlow 1.0 support.