[ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] ovs-vswitchd start order on debian
Gurucharan Shetty
shettyg at nicira.com
Sat Dec 21 08:16:55 UTC 2013
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On Dec 20, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar at proxmox.com> wrote:
>> I did not write that script, so I am only going to make an educated guess.
>> The dependency on $syslog looks obvious. Open vSwitch has daemons and
>> scripts that do logging and hence needs syslog.
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> Sure, but that does not necessarily means the you need to depend on syslog.
> A reasonable behavior is to simple log messages to the console if syslog
> fails (using LOG_CONS for openlog in lib/vlog.c).
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>> For $named, If you configure dhcp for your OVS bridge, I can see why you may
>> need hostname resolution. Other than that I do not see any configuration in
>> OVSDB where we allow a DNS name.
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> I don't really get that. The standard bridge can use dhcp without any problems at
> boot time, so why is a OVS bridge different?
That makes sense. I think if you send a patch to dev with what you think should be the correct behavior you will get better review comments.
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