Hi, I am relatively new to openvswitch and I had some confusion about the openvswitch bridges. I do know that in all the tutorials, 'switch' and 'bridge' are synonymous. correct me if I'm wrong?
Now, I've been following this<http://geni-app-developer-documentation.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples/example-3.html#step-4-configure-open-vswitch-to-use-our-ethernet-interfaces>tutorial on setting up openvswitch on GENI machines for using openflow. I am confused with the way they have used the 'ovs-vsctl add-br br-int' command. Imagine that my host machine has two interfaces eth1 and eth2. Now I want to make a vswitch and have these two interfaces integrate with two ports on my vswitch. So the following should be done: $ovs-vsctl add-br br0 $ovs-vsctl add-port eth1 $ovs-vsctl add-port eth2 this does (ovs-vsctl show) me that I made a bridge called 'br0' and it has two interfaces called eth1 and eth2. q1. The earlier tutorial seems to be creating two bridges right? I just want one bridge and 2 interfaces. q2. Now I want to integrate them with the existing physical interfaces eth1 and eth2 (or did they already get integrated because the of the same names?) So I need to go and edit the /etc/network/interfaces file right? As mentioned here<http://blog.scottlowe.org/2012/08/17/installing-kvm-and-open-vswitch-on-ubuntu/>. But again, I see that ip addresses are given to br0 and not eth1 and eth2. I appreciate any help in clearing out the confusion here. Regards, Naman
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