[ovs-discuss] bug?

[Ben Pfaff]

If the tap exists when you start OVS, then I'd expect it to work
without removing and re-adding.  OVS doesn't currently notice
automatically when a device that was missing when it started up
appears.  That would be a useful contribution, though, and I'd happily
accept a good implementation of such a feature.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 04:49:21PM -0400, westlake wrote:
> when there's a reboot (ovs-db retains it's settings), I have to
> manually do,
> ovs-vsctl del-port <br> <tuntap><enter>, then ovs-vsctl add-port
> <br><tuntap><enter>
> (the "ip tuntap> command is used to create tuntaps on startup)
> 
> 
> On 24/10/14 03:27 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:04:04PM -0400, westlake wrote:
> >>  there an option with ovs-vsctl to have tap devices stored to
> >>reference the same as the actual?  (error: "could not open network
> >>device tap0nic (No such device)) ovs-vstctl show<enter> has this
> >>error message, but if I delete the port tap (with ovs-vsctl
> >>del-port..) and then re-add it then this error message goes away.
> >
> >I don't know what "have tap devices stored to reference the same as
> >the actual" means.  Can you explain or give an example?
> >
>