On May 28, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:17:39PM -0700, Neil Mckee wrote:
>> It would be helpful if ovs-vsctl(1) had a way to write out the
>> netdev ifIndex numbers, where applicable, of the bridge ports.  This
>> would help to harmonize integration with SNMP, sFlow, LLDP and more.
>> 
>> Could it be an extra column in the output from "ovs-vsctl list Port"
>> ?  Or a key-value pair in the "External-IDs" column?
> 
> It would be easy enough to add it to the "status" column,
> e.g. status:ifindex.  It might even be reasonable to add a standalone
> "ifindex" column, since ifindex is a pretty universal concept.  I
> think I lean that way.
> 
> Are you willing and able to propose a patch?

Yes.  Willing to try,  anyway.  Should get to it next week.

Neil


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