[ovs-discuss] OVS port name differ from interface name

[Riccardo Ravaioli]

In the example above my bridge name is br and my ports are named 0.br, 1.br,
etc.
It's just an example. I could have chosen myport0, myport1, etc.

On 18 January 2018 at 14:39, Shivaram Mysore <shivaram.mysore at gmail.com>
wrote:

> There is s typo in add-br command.  Your bridge name is br instead of 0.br
>
>
>
> /Shivaram
> ::Sent from my mobile device::
>
> On Jan 18, 2018, at 5:17 AM, Riccardo Ravaioli <riccardoravaioli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> I have a related question. I do the following in order to have a bridge br
> with ports 0.br, 1.br... and later add existing interfaces to such ports:
>
> ovs-vsctl add-br br
> ovs-vsctl add-port br 0.br
> ovs-vsctl --id=@ifce create interface  name=eth1 -- set port 0.br
> interface=@ifce
>
> When I execute the "ovs-vsctl add-port' command above I get an error
> saying that 0.br doesn't correspond to any interface:
> *ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up '0.switch5': could not open
> network device 0.switch5 (No such device).*
>
> Can I pass an argument to "ovs-vsctl add-port" to tell OVS that 0.br is
> just a switch port and not a real existing interface?
>
>
> ______
>
>
> On 15 January 2018 at 20:19, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:50:52AM -0800, Fred Licht wrote:
>> >    Is it possible to have an OVS port ‘name’ differ from the interface
>> name?
>> >
>> >     Bridge ovs-ha-sw
>> >         Port ovs-ha-sw
>> >             Interface ovs-ha-sw
>> >                 type: internal
>> >         Port "bond1"
>> >             Interface "bond1"
>> >
>> > To have the effect of:
>> >
>> >     Bridge ovs-ha-sw
>> >         Port ovs-ha-sw
>> >             Interface ovs-ha-sw
>> >                 type: internal
>> >         Port “east-west"
>> >             Interface "bond1"
>>
>> You can do it, but since port names are immutable it has to happen at
>> the time you add the port.  For example:
>>
>> blp at sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl add-br br0
>> blp at sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 p0 -- set
>> port p0 name=asdf
>> blp at sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl show
>> 8b75cccb-f1eb-4e75-ac67-57ebac4e8432
>>     Bridge "br0"
>>         Port "br0"
>>             Interface "br0"
>>                 type: internal
>>         Port asdf
>>             Interface "p0"
>> blp at sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$
>> _______________________________________________
>> discuss mailing list
>> discuss at openvswitch.org
>> https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> discuss mailing list
> discuss at openvswitch.org
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/attachments/20180118/377b3e80/attachment-0001.html>