"send traffic"?  Definitely not true.

Localnet ports do need the Ethernet device to be part of an OVS bridge,
but the device doesn't have to be reserved exclusively for OVS.

Which tutorials are putting out this information?  We can correct them
or ask the authors to correct them.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:51:02AM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> As i understand in various tutorials i need to add ethernet device to
> ovs to be able to send traffic or use localnet port
> 
> ср, 19 дек. 2018 г. в 20:16, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org>:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:56:28AM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> > > Hi, i have some servers that have only one nic for network. As i 
> > > understand
> > > for ovn i need to add this interface to ovs bridge.
> > > But for host access i need some ip address on server and also if ovs or 
> > > ovn
> > > is down or something else with this services i can't connect to server.
> > > How to deal with such case? Or only one thing is to create localnet port 
> > > in
> > > ovn?
> >
> > OVN shouldn't need to take over your NIC.  In the most common case it
> > only deals with tunnels, which get their own bridge and do not need
> > direct access to the NIC.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Vasiliy Tolstov,
> e-mail: v.tols...@selfip.ru
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