[ovs-discuss] listen for up/down ports messages from vSwtich

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:53:31PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2013 7:41 PM, "Ben Pfaff" <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> > > 2013/9/27 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:
> > > > It could mean that the port didn't really change status, or that you
> > > > misunderstand the definition of status in this context, or that OVS
> has
> > > > a bug.
> > >
> > > Hmm. If i do something like ovs-vsctl add-port ovs-vm vnet100 (vnet100
> > > not exists)
> > > does vSwitch must send port_status message to controller?
> > > (in case of real exiting port added via libvirt nothing changed)
> >
> > If you use ovs-vsctl to "add" a port that does not really exist, then
> > OVS cannot really add the port, so OVS will not send a port_status
> > message.
> 
> If this port has type internal does ovs send message?

Yes, it should.