On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 04:08:22PM -0700, Han Zhou wrote: > On Friday, April 8, 2016, Xiao Liang <shaw.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Add new column "ofname" in Interface table to configure port name reported > > to controllers with OpenFlow protocol, thus decouple OpenFlow port name > from > > device name. > > > > For example: > > # ovs-vsctl set Interface eth0 ofname=wan > > # ovs-vsctl set Interface eth1 ofname=lan0 > > then controllers can recognize ports by their names. > > > > Hi Xiao, > > Could external-ids be used to serve the same purpose? E.g. ovs-vsctl set > Interface eth0 external-ids:ofname=wan.
I think that Xiao wants to identify ports over the OpenFlow protocol by name. There isn't any way to obtain external-ids via OpenFlow, and although we could introduce one it would require the controller to implement an extension. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
