On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 08:06:18PM +0000, Ravi Kondamuru wrote: > Commit bdebeece5 on git.openvswitch.org (lacp: Require successful LACP > negotiations when configured.) makes successful LACP negotiation > mandatory for the bond to come UP. This patch provides a configuration > option to bring up the bond by falling back to active-backup mode on > LACP negotiation failure . > > Several of the physical switches that support LACP block all traffic for ports > that are configured to use LACP, until LACP is negotiated with the host. When > configuring a LACP bond on a OVS host (eg: XenServer), this means that there > will be an interruption of the network connectivity between the time the ports > on the physical switch and the bond on the OVS host are configured. The > interruption may be relatively long, if different people are responsible for > managing the switches and the OVS host. > > Such network connectivity failure can be avoided if LACP can be configured on > the OVS host before configuring the physical switch, and having the OVS host > fall back to a bond mode (active-backup) till the physical switch LACP > configuration is complete. An option "lacp-fallback-ab" is introduced with > this > patch to provide such behavior on openvswitch. > > Signed-off-by: Ravi Kondamuru <ravi.kondam...@citrix.com> > Signed-off-by: Dominic Curran <dominic.cur...@citrix.com>
Ethan, you're shepherding this series, right? _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
