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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am writing to ask your help about InBand controller<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The work in <a href="https://techandtrains.com/2014/04/03/running-open-vswitch-in-network-namespace-inband-controller/">
https://techandtrains.com/2014/04/03/running-open-vswitch-in-network-namespace-inband-controller/</a><br>
builds the next topology and starts up the controller in h1 ( I did everything in the website and the topology works well)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">S1 &#8211; -- -- S2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; |<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">H1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; H2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
But, when I want to add switch to the topology with two hosts, the controller cannot reach to the new switch, thus the hosts h3 and h4 cannot do ping
<br>
for example :<br>
<br>
S1 ---- S2 ----- S3 &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /\<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">H1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; h2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; h3 h4 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I made a createBrSdn file for three ports by adding this line
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt;background:whitesmoke"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Courier New&quot;;color:#555555">ovs-vsctl --db=unix:/tmp/mininet-$1/db.sock add-port $1 $1-eth2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">could you help me ?<br>
Thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
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