[ovs-discuss] OVS binding Port link-status across different ports

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:58:17AM -0800, Gregory Rose wrote:
> On 11/12/2017 1:21 PM, Fred Licht wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >   I was curious if there was a way to have an OVS port reflect its up/down status to force a different port’s status to match.  I am hosting a firewall VM on a system, and would want to have the LAN interface go down if the upstream (real) physical interface went down.   And the same in reverse if the link comes back up, to also bring up the Firewall LAN virtual interface.
> 
> Certain types of OVS ports are not logically related to any physical port
> link status so it would be
> problematic to do this.

For what it's worth, this is something that could be done by a
controller.