On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> On May 24, 2016, at 2:28 AM, Steffen Fredrik Birkeland >> <steff...@stud.ntnu.no> wrote: >> >> Hi >> I am currently working with open vswitch for my master thesis and I have >> discovered some issues with the port naming in vswitch. >> >> If I chose a port name that is more than 15 characters long, the names are >> beeing cut off > > Linux limits the length of its devices names to 15 characters. > >> ipsec_gre-rasp1-r1 shows up as ipsec_gre-r2-ra. Furthermore, if you want to >> delete or modify the port you have to reference it by its full name. If you >> request the port names in the controller you will only get the cut-off name. > > The OVS database that stores configuration doesn't know about host-specific > limitations on device name lengths. If you look in the ovs-vswitchd logs, > you will likely see it complaining about the issue. > > --Justin > >
Openflow also limits port name length to 15. I'm currently working on a patch so that a different name (still no more than 15 characters) could be configured for the controller to distinguish ports. Thanks, Xiao _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
