The current initscripts ifup-ovs brings up internal ports as
an ordinary ethernet device, so BOOTPROTO=dhcp|none does not
consider any OVS/bridge detail.

Since DHCP requires a port in the bridge to reach the server,
bring up the required port before in the same way it does for
OVS bridge.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <f...@redhat.com>
---
 rhel/README.RHEL                            | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs |  7 +++++-
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

v3: Fixed quotes
v2: Added documentation

diff --git a/rhel/README.RHEL b/rhel/README.RHEL
index 435772f..cb6ab88 100644
--- a/rhel/README.RHEL
+++ b/rhel/README.RHEL
@@ -87,6 +87,44 @@ OVSBOOTPROTO="dhcp"
 OVSDHCPINTERFACES="eth0"
 HOTPLUG=no
 
+
+Adding Internal Port to ovsbridge0:
+
+==> ifcfg-intbr0 <==
+DEVICE=intbr0
+ONBOOT=yes
+DEVICETYPE=ovs
+TYPE=OVSIntPort
+OVS_BRIDGE=ovsbridge0
+HOTPLUG=no
+
+
+Internal Port with fixed IP address:
+
+DEVICE=intbr0
+ONBOOT=yes
+DEVICETYPE=ovs
+TYPE=OVSIntPort
+OVS_BRIDGE=ovsbridge0
+BOOTPROTO=static
+IPADDR=A.B.C.D
+NETMASK=X.Y.Z.0
+HOTPLUG=no
+
+Internal Port with DHCP:
+* Needs OVSBOOTPROTO or BOOTPROTO.
+* All the interfaces that can reach the DHCP server
+as a space separated list in OVSDHCPINTERFACES.
+
+DEVICE=intbr0
+ONBOOT=yes
+DEVICETYPE=ovs
+TYPE=OVSIntPort
+OVS_BRIDGE=ovsbridge0
+OVSBOOTPROTO="dhcp"
+OVSDHCPINTERFACES="eth0"
+HOTPLUG=no
+
 Adding physical eth0 to ovsbridge0 described above:
 
 ==> ifcfg-eth0 <==
diff --git a/rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs 
b/rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs
index 3f31c30..0ee7b21 100755
--- a/rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs
+++ b/rhel/etc_sysconfig_network-scripts_ifup-ovs
@@ -115,7 +115,12 @@ case "$TYPE" in
        OVSIntPort)
                ifup_ovs_bridge
                ovs-vsctl -t ${TIMEOUT} -- --may-exist add-port "$OVS_BRIDGE" 
"$DEVICE" $OVS_OPTIONS -- set Interface "$DEVICE" type=internal ${OVS_EXTRA+-- 
$OVS_EXTRA}
-               ${OTHERSCRIPT} ${CONFIG} ${2}
+               if [ -n "${OVSDHCPINTERFACES}" ]; then
+                       for _iface in ${OVSDHCPINTERFACES}; do
+                               /sbin/ifup ${_iface}
+                       done
+               fi
+               BOOTPROTO="${OVSBOOTPROTO}" ${OTHERSCRIPT} ${CONFIG} ${2}
                ;;
        OVSBond)
                ifup_ovs_bridge
-- 
1.8.4.2

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