[ixpmanager] How to migrate a member port between switches

Nick Hilliard (INEX) nick at inex.ie
Wed Aug 28 10:19:57 IST 2024


Marco d'Itri via ixpmanager wrote on 28/08/2024 10:05:
> Currently our procedure is:
> - add the new physical port to the existing VLAN interface
> - ignore the warning saying that this is not supported because the ports
>    are in different switches
> - move the fiber
> - remove the old physical port
> 
> This works fine, EXCEPT that the
> v4/provisioner/layer2interfaces/switch-name/$switch.json API endpoint
> returns the wrong interface name for the new switch, and this prevents
> automatically generating the configuration.

Sounds like a bug. Can you open up a GH issue about this?

In this instance, do you have both the old interface on the old switch 
and the new interface on the new switch configured simultaneously in IXP 
Manger?

Nick



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