Yep I'm looking at it. Ethan
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > 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
