"dev" <dev-boun...@openvswitch.org> wrote on 05/24/2016 02:07:23 AM:

> From: Xiao Liang <shaw.l...@gmail.com>
> To: Flavio Leitner <f...@sysclose.org>, dev@openvswitch.org
> Cc: Takashi Yamamoto <yamam...@midokura.com>
> Date: 05/24/2016 02:28 AM
> Subject: [ovs-dev] [PATCH v4] Add configurable OpenFlow port name.
> Sent by: "dev" <dev-boun...@openvswitch.org>
>
> 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>

Putting on my operator hat, I can see this being rather useful...

Acked-by: Ryan Moats <rmo...@us.ibm.com>
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