[ovs-discuss] Does OVS support LACP?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Jerry Ma <jerry.ma.80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Meanwhile, when I run "ip link show" and "brctl show", some output seems
> weird. I am not sure if it is by design
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen
> 1000
>     link/ether 00:15:17:dd:89:3c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen
> 1000
>     link/ether 00:15:17:dd:89:3d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 5: xenbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
>     link/ether 00:15:17:dd:89:3c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> NO bond0 displayed

That is correct and expected behavior.  Bonds created by Open vSwitch do
not ordinarily show up as Linux network devices.

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