Re: [ovs-dev] exporting port-to-ifindex mapping

2013-06-07 Thread Ben Pfaff
I think it should go into Interface. The field should be mutable, because its value is not known when ovs-vsctl (or another OVSDB client) adds the Interface record; instead, ovs-vswitchd fills it in later. Otherwise your plan sounds right. Other interface status columns, such as 'link_state' and

Re: [ovs-dev] exporting port-to-ifindex mapping

2013-06-07 Thread Neil Mckee
Want to make sure I get off on the right foot... should the read-only ifindex field go into "Port" or "Interface" ? It seems like ovsrec_interface is the one with the pointer to netdev. So I just need to: 1. change the schema to add ifindex as a new field (with mutable: false), 2. update the

Re: [ovs-dev] exporting port-to-ifindex mapping

2013-05-31 Thread Neil Mckee
On May 28, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:17:39PM -0700, Neil Mckee wrote: >> It would be helpful if ovs-vsctl(1) had a way to write out the >> netdev ifIndex numbers, where applicable, of the bridge ports. This >> would help to harmonize integration with SNMP,

Re: [ovs-dev] exporting port-to-ifindex mapping

2013-05-28 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:17:39PM -0700, Neil Mckee wrote: > It would be helpful if ovs-vsctl(1) had a way to write out the > netdev ifIndex numbers, where applicable, of the bridge ports. This > would help to harmonize integration with SNMP, sFlow, LLDP and more. > > Could it be an extra column