In the example above my bridge name is br and my ports are named 0.br, 1.br, etc. It's just an example. I could have chosen myport0, myport1, etc.
On 18 January 2018 at 14:39, Shivaram Mysore <shivaram.mys...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is s typo in add-br command. Your bridge name is br instead of 0.br > > > > /Shivaram > ::Sent from my mobile device:: > > On Jan 18, 2018, at 5:17 AM, Riccardo Ravaioli <riccardoravai...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > I have a related question. I do the following in order to have a bridge br > with ports 0.br, 1.br... and later add existing interfaces to such ports: > > ovs-vsctl add-br br > ovs-vsctl add-port br 0.br > ovs-vsctl --id=@ifce create interface name=eth1 -- set port 0.br > interface=@ifce > > When I execute the "ovs-vsctl add-port' command above I get an error > saying that 0.br doesn't correspond to any interface: > *ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up '0.switch5': could not open > network device 0.switch5 (No such device).* > > Can I pass an argument to "ovs-vsctl add-port" to tell OVS that 0.br is > just a switch port and not a real existing interface? > > > ______ > > > On 15 January 2018 at 20:19, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:50:52AM -0800, Fred Licht wrote: >> > Is it possible to have an OVS port ‘name’ differ from the interface >> name? >> > >> > Bridge ovs-ha-sw >> > Port ovs-ha-sw >> > Interface ovs-ha-sw >> > type: internal >> > Port "bond1" >> > Interface "bond1" >> > >> > To have the effect of: >> > >> > Bridge ovs-ha-sw >> > Port ovs-ha-sw >> > Interface ovs-ha-sw >> > type: internal >> > Port “east-west" >> > Interface "bond1" >> >> You can do it, but since port names are immutable it has to happen at >> the time you add the port. For example: >> >> blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl add-br br0 >> blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 p0 -- set >> port p0 name=asdf >> blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ ovs-vsctl show >> 8b75cccb-f1eb-4e75-ac67-57ebac4e8432 >> Bridge "br0" >> Port "br0" >> Interface "br0" >> type: internal >> Port asdf >> Interface "p0" >> blp@sigabrt:~/nicira/ovs/tutorial(0)$ >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> disc...@openvswitch.org >> https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > disc...@openvswitch.org > https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss > >
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