<div dir="ltr">I'm in a very similar boat as Shravan. The utility for me is to be able to test flow sets on arbitrary mininet topologies that simulate real world topologies that may or may not use VXLAN. The root cause as I see it is that mininet must put all OVS bridges in the same namespace. This is probably an OVS limitation not mininet. Has been discussed a little here: <a href="https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2015-September/038543.html">https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2015-September/038543.html</a><div><br></div><div>Of course you could start mininet itself in different namespaces, but that defeats a lot of the purpose of building topologies within a mininet.</div><div><br></div><div>Shravan, if you find a workable solution please let me know.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Michael</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 7:07 AM, O'Reilly, Darragh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darragh.oreilly@hpe.com" target="_blank">darragh.oreilly@hpe.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">But if you really want to use vxlan, then maybe the loopback (lo <a href="http://127.0.0.1/8" target="_blank">127.0.0.1/8</a>) can be used, something like this:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 13 January 2017 10:21</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My motive is to simulate VXLAN functionality on a bigger topology using mininet.<br>
My plan - As Mininet uses OVS bridges to simulate vswitch functionality, we can use ovs-vsctl to configure VXLAN functionality on the bridges. I thought let me try for a simple topology without using Mininet and just using OVS on a single host and 2 VMs. If
it works, then I can make a similar configuration for a bigger topology using mininet.
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ad172f01-511d-46fe-9022-<wbr>d23de31e06e2<br>
Bridge "s2"<br>
Controller "ptcp:6635"<br>
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Port "s2-eth2"<br>
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Interface "s2"<br>
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h1 h1-eth0:s1-eth1<br>
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s1 lo: s1-eth1:h1-eth0 s1-eth2:s2-eth2<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would still echo Raymond's suggestion: use VirtualBox to create two "hosts" running OVS and connect them via a VXLAN tunnel over standard VBox networking. You can use network namespaces (as Justin suggested) on the VMs running OVS to
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Shravan S K<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 12, 2017 22:34<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott Lowe <<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.org</a>><br>
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<p>Because of lack of hardware, I'm trying a vxlan setup on a single computer. <u></u>
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Before we go down that path, can you help me understand what you're<br>
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> I am not sure how to do the config for what you said.<br>
> Can you please explain how to configure the setup that you're suggesting ?<br>
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> On 12 January 2017 at 02:17, Scott Lowe <<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> On 01/11/2017 03:54 AM, Shravan S K wrote:<br>
> > Like this?<br>
> > vm01-------------------|<br>
> > |------------------vm03<br>
> ><br>
> > br1(vxlanport1)------------br-<wbr>int1=================br-int2--<wbr>--------(vxlanport2)br2<br>
> > vm02-------------------|<br>
> > |-------------------vm04<br>
> ><br>
> > What is the need for the bridges br-int1 and br-int2? Why is it not<br>
> > possible without them(as the topology shown earlier in this thread)?<br>
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> [SL] No, I don't think this is the configuration you'd want to use. The<br>
> "br-int" bridges aren't strictly required; you could use br1 and br2.<br>
> The trick here---as you're trying to create a VXLAN tunnel within a<br>
> host---would be that you'll need 2 IP endpoints (one for each end of the<br>
> tunnel), and you'd need each bridge with a VXLAN port to be associated<br>
> with one of those IP endpoints.<br>
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> As I said, though, I haven't tested a configuration like this. Further,<br>
> to be honest, I'm not really sure what you're trying to accomplish with<br>
> such a configuration.<br>
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> > Shravan<br>
> ><br>
> > On 11 January 2017 at 11:59, Scott Lowe <<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>>>> wrote:<br>
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> > Please see my response inline, prefixed with [SL].<br>
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> > On 01/10/2017 09:50 PM, Shravan S K wrote:<br>
> >> I am asking if that can be done on a single physical host having<br>
> >> OVS. Say, as mininet creates bridges which act as switches. Can<br>
> >> vxlan be setup using Mininet?<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > [SL] I don't know if it's possible for Mininet to set up VXLAN;<br>
> > that's a question best asked on a Mininet-related forum.<br>
> ><br>
> > As for whether it can be done on a single host, I suppose if you were<br>
> > to use 2 separate bridges for physical connectivity along with 2<br>
> > separate bridges for the tunnels, it might work. I've never tried it,<br>
> > though, so this is just conjecture.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >> Shravan<br>
> >><br>
> >> On 10 January 2017 at 23:33, Scott Lowe <<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>>><br>
> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:scott.lowe@scottlowe.org" target="_blank">scott.lowe@scottlowe.<wbr>org</a>>>>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Please see my response below.<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> On 01/10/2017 02:26 AM, Shravan S K wrote:<br>
> >>> Is it possible to create a VXLAN setup using just bridges created<br>
> >>> by OVS? (using ovs-vsctl to create these bridges,ports and vxlan<br>
> >>> config)<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> vm01-------------------| |------------------vm03<br>
> >>> br1-------br2<br>
> >>> vm02-------------------| |-------------------vm04<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> Yes, this is possible. On each hypervisor where OVS is running and<br>
> >> where you have VMs you'd like to connect over VXLAN tunnels, create<br>
> >> a bridge ("br-tun", for example). Create and configure a VXLAN port<br>
> >> appropriately on br-tun on each hypervisor, and then connect your<br>
> >> VMs. You should be good to go. My website has an example of doing<br>
> >> this with GRE; VXLAN should be nearly identical.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Hope this helps,<br>
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