Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Enable DHCP in redhat network scripts.

2012-01-25 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
> > > What if we only added a list of ports that are required to complete > DHCP? That would ordinarily be only one port (which might be a bond), > and it wouldn't be needed at all if DHCP was not in use. > It sounds better than adding all the ports belonging to a bridge.

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Enable DHCP in redhat network scripts.

2012-01-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 04:54:56PM +0400, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:30:15AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Should we skip the "post" call for OVSIntPort? We know that these > > ports are not physical ports, so they will not allow DHCP to complete. > I believe DHCP is allow

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Enable DHCP in redhat network scripts.

2012-01-25 Thread Alexey I. Froloff
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 09:30:15AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Should we skip the "post" call for OVSIntPort? We know that these > ports are not physical ports, so they will not allow DHCP to complete. I believe DHCP is allowed on these ports, but you are right - no need to delay bridge configuratio

Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Enable DHCP in redhat network scripts.

2012-01-24 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 08:29:29AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote: > The current network-script, ifup-ovs does not work well if you > enable DHCP on the OVS. It will work if we name the bridge > alphabetically greater than the underlying physical interfaces. > Even then, it will do multiple DHCP a

[ovs-dev] [PATCH] rhel: Enable DHCP in redhat network scripts.

2012-01-24 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
The current network-script, ifup-ovs does not work well if you enable DHCP on the OVS. It will work if we name the bridge alphabetically greater than the underlying physical interfaces. Even then, it will do multiple DHCP attempts slowing down the boot up process. This patch is my attempt to allo