[ovs-discuss] Single nic server and ovn

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:56:28AM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> Hi, i have some servers that have only one nic for network. As i understand
> for ovn i need to add this interface to ovs bridge.
> But for host access i need some ip address on server and also if ovs or ovn
> is down or something else with this services i can't connect to server.
> How to deal with such case? Or only one thing is to create localnet port in
> ovn?

OVN shouldn't need to take over your NIC.  In the most common case it
only deals with tunnels, which get their own bridge and do not need
direct access to the NIC.