November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Currently, there are three Open vSwitch options that are fully supported through Proxmox, such as OVSBridge, OVSIntPort, and OVSBond. The OVSPatchPort option that is required for the patch port cannot be configured through the Proxmox GUI. Thus, even if we manually create a configuration in the network interface file, it still seems to be out of reach. An alternative solution where the patch port is required is to use an Open vSwitch fake bridge. A patch port allows us to create an extension of the main bridge. For example, if we are connecting two physical switches with each other, the ports where we will connect the network cable to becomes patch ports for these two switches. Fake ...
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