[ovs-discuss] Ubuntu systemd scripts for openvswitch

[Gurucharan Shetty]

James,
 Did you have any comment about the above question?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Gurucharan Shetty <shettyg at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Ubuntu 15.04, there are systemd scripts added for
> openvswitch-switch package. (/etc/init/openvswitch-switch.conf). At
> first glance (and based on a user bug report), it does not work with
> OVS integration with 'interfaces' file (as described in the section
> "Debian network scripts integration" at
> https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/debian/openvswitch-switch.README.Debian).
>
> The way 'interfaces' integration currently works is that, in
> /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch, we call "network_interfaces ifup"
> function when "start" is called. Since
> /etc/init/openvswitch-switch.conf does not have this integration,
> things configured in /etc/network/interfaces for OVS no longer works.
>
> Would adding the following line in /etc/init.d/openvswitch-switch a
> viable solution for those that want the 'interfaces' integration to
> continue to work?
> _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=yes