Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 01:21:39AM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > An ovs-only solution could be to facilitate an init-script that > calls ifup for all interfaces that are added by ovs during boot, and > calls ifdown for them before shutting down ovs. Or even not a > separate init-script, but t

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-27 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
On 10/27/2011 10:23 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 01:37:08AM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: Perhaps it's best to consider the devices set up by ovs at boot time equal to the nics that are physically present in a server. Using this approach, I can just say "Yay, I have a switch

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 01:37:08AM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > Perhaps it's best to consider the devices set up by ovs at boot time > equal to the nics that are physically present in a server. Using > this approach, I can just say "Yay, I have a switch built in to my > server where I can pl

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-25 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
On 10/24/2011 08:20 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:50:11PM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: On 10/22/2011 01:54 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Frank wrote: Is there a good way to with some kind of hook to add ip addresses to interfaces defined

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:50:11PM +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > On 10/22/2011 01:54 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Frank wrote: > >>Is there a good way to with some kind of hook to add ip addresses to > >>interfaces defined via ovs-vsctl and set interfaces

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-22 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
On 10/22/2011 01:54 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Frank wrote: Is there a good way to with some kind of hook to add ip addresses to interfaces defined via ovs-vsctl and set interfaces links up? One way to do it would be to add a init script to run after openvsw

Re: [ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-21 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 01:08:57PM +0200, Frank wrote: > Is there a good way to with some kind of hook to add ip addresses to > interfaces defined via ovs-vsctl and set interfaces links up? One way to do it would be to add a init script to run after openvswitch-switch. udev is another way. I'm s

[ovs-discuss] Open-vswitch network configuration on Debian

2011-10-20 Thread Frank
Hello, We're currently experimenting with open-vswitch, planning to use it as replacement for vconfig/bridges in a debian/xen environment. The primary goal we're looking for is to cleanup the numerous bridges and interfaces in vm's when working with a whole bunch of vlans, replacing them by