Well, I think my confusion comes from the fact that with Linux you can have
a bond interface, whereas in OVS it always just a port.

Alex

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 12:01 AM Alex Zetaeffesse <fzet...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I searched the Internet for the answer, but so far I haven't found it.
>
> Can anybody tell me why when creating an OVS bond interface I have to link
> it to a bridge, that must of course exist?
> This is not required through the Linux way where a bond is created
> straight-away as a port.
> Even more weird, in the help of ovs-vsctl I read
>
> *Port commands (a bond is considered to be a single port):*
>
> So for OVS a bond is a port. For me that's the difficult part to
> understand.
> Since I'm thinking of moving from Linux to OVS due to the SDN management
> in
> ProxMox, I would like to get it right.
>
> TIA,
> Alex
>
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