<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Wed, 2018-07-25 at 15:22 +0530, pranab boruah wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p id="gmail-m_2751734422322469867gmail-yui_3_10_3_1_1532509561294_1872" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Hello folks,</font></p><p id="gmail-m_2751734422322469867gmail-yui_3_10_3_1_1532509561294_1872" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I have filed a bug in os-vif: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/os-vif/+bug/1778724">https://bugs.launchpad.net/os-vif/+bug/1778724</a> and working on a patch. Any feedback/comments from you guys would be extremely helpful. </font></p><p id="gmail-m_2751734422322469867gmail-yui_3_10_3_1_1532509561294_1872" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bug details:</font></p><p id="gmail-m_2751734422322469867gmail-yui_3_10_3_1_1532509561294_1872" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">OVS DB server has the feature of listening over a TCP socket for connections rather than just on the unix domain socket. [0]<br></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If the OVS DB server is listening over a TCP socket, then the ovs-vsctl commands should include the ovsdb_connection parameter:<br># ovs-vsctl --db=tcp:IP:PORT ...<br>eg:<br># ovs-vsctl --db=tcp:<a href="http://169.254.1.1:6640">169.254.1.1:6640</a> add-port br-int eth0</font></p><p id="gmail-m_2751734422322469867gmail-yui_3_10_3_1_1532509561294_1849" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Neutron supports running the ovs-vsctl commands with the ovsdb_connection parameter. The ovsdb_connection parameter is configured in openvswitch_agent.ini file. [1]</font></p><p id="gmail-m_2751734422322469867gmail-yui_3_10_3_1_1532509561294_1859" style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">While adding a vif to the ovs bridge(br-int), Nova(os-vif) invokes the ovs-vsctl command. Today, there is no support to pass the ovsdb_connection parameter while invoking the ovs-vsctl command. The support should be added. This would enhance the functionality of os-vif, since it would support a scenario when OVS DB server is listening on a TCP socket connection and on functional parity with Neutron.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;width:auto;max-width:45em;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[0]<span> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.openvswitch.org/support/dist-docs/ovsdb-server.1.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">http://www.openvswitch.<wbr>org/support/dist-docs/ovsdb-<wbr>server.1.html</a><br>[1]<span> </span><a rel="nofollow" href="https://docs.openstack.org/neutron/pike/configuration/openvswitch-agent.html" style="color:rgb(0,51,170);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://docs.openstack.<wbr>org/neutron/pike/configuration<wbr>/openvswitch-agent.html</a></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">TIA,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pranab</font></div></div>
</blockquote><pre><br></pre><div>Perhaps not the same thing, but would the patches mentioned in the below mail work for this too?</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-March/127907.html">http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2018-March/127907.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Stephen</div><div><br></div></body></html>