On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Takashi Yamamoto <yamam...@midokura.com> wrote: > hi, > > have you considered the opposite way? > ie. have an ability to specify the device name. > > netdev-bsd already has a distinction between "kernel name" and "ovs name". >
Hi, I'm not familiar with netdev-bsd code, but I think this approach will make ports more difficult to manage and need much more effort. Thanks, Xiao > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:23 PM, 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. >> >> Signed-off-by: Xiao Liang <shaw.l...@gmail.com> >> --- >> v2: Added test for ofname >> Increased db schema version _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
