[ovs-discuss] [ovs-dev] ovs-vswitchd start order on debian

[Gurucharan Shetty]

Sent from my iPhone

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.
> 
> 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).
I did not respond to this comment. I dont think I can agree with you. It is important to always log to a place that can be looked at in the future or in a debug bundle.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
>