[ovs-discuss] The limit of Open vSwitch obstruct us migrate from bridge-utils

[bengo cloud]

2012/5/16 bengo cloud <cloudbengo at gmail.com>

> 2012/5/16 Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song at gmail.com>
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>> Then we have no management NIC available. But bridge-utils allow us use
>> the same
>> NIC for both data link and management  link.
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> After you add pNic to a bridge created by OVS, say br0, you could
> configure br0 to acquire valid IP address, automatically through dhcp or
> you can configure a static IP manually. That should be the management IP
> you want.
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> For fail-over, add 2 pNics to br0, turn STP on. Thanks.
>
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Fail-over could also be achieved by using bond. I've no experience of using
OVS bond. Ben may provide you more info. Thanks.
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