[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-vswitchd: Add ability to disable in-band on a bridge
Justin Pettit
jpettit at nicira.com
Tue Oct 19 16:47:24 PDT 2010
On Oct 19, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 04:43:54PM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> In-band control is always enabled when a manager is configured. Some
>> applications wish to control all the flows within a bridge, and in-band
>> control can override that wish. Depending on how the network is
>> configured, this can lead to loops as the in-band control rules try to
>> learn where to send traffic.
>>
>> This commit adds a "disable-in-band" key to the "other_config" column of
>> bridge tables. If set to "true", in-band will be disabled regardless of
>> manager or controller configuration.
>
> Thanks, this version looks good.
Thanks. Pushed.
--Justin
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