> That was my understanding the first time around too. All I see you trying to > do is > creating a bridge with a single port and assigning IP address to it. So I am > not > sure why it matters if ovs-vswitchd starts late.
because we want to have working network devices early in the boot process. Almost all services in runlevel 2 needs working network devices. >Once it starts, the startup script > should look at the /etc/network/interfaces file and create the bridge. And > since > you say that your interfaces file works during non boot up phase, your > configuration must be correct. Yes, that work, but the network device is activated too late. All other service in runlevel 2 depends on working network devices, and thus fail. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev