On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:52:59PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: >> Open vSwitch bridges and ports can be configured through >> the /etc/network/interfaces script. During system startup, >> Open vSwitch startup script reads the interfaces file >> and creates the bridges and ports. During system shutdown, >> the bridges and ports are removed. >> >> The same behavior also can occur with a manual 'restart' of >> Open vswitch (ex: service openvswitch-switch restart). >> This behavior has come across as undesirable in some cases. >> ex: When some one manually creates interfaces through ovs-vsctl >> and then restarts Open vSwitch, that interface is lost. >> >> This commit changes the startup script such that, interfaces >> are created and deleted through the startup script only when >> RUNLEVEL environment variable is set. This behavior will be >> consistent with the OVS RHEL ifcfg-* scripts too. >> >> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshe...@nicira.com> > > I guess that RHEL does it in toplevel scripts? I don't see any existing > mentions of RUNLEVEL in our tree. Correct. I was trying to say that in case of RHEL, creation and destruction of bridges only happens during system startup/shutdown and not during every Open vSwitch restarts. And that with this change, we will only create and destroy bridges during system startup/shutdown in debian too.
> > Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
