[ovs-dev] Loss of Network Connectivity

[Justin Pettit]

I assume you're running ovs-vswitchd and ovs-brcompatd, correct?  Do you see the RX counters going up on your network devices when you run ifconfig?

--Justin


On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Timothy Ficarra wrote:

> Here are the details of the problem:
> 
> ovs version:
> open vswitch 0.90.7
> 
> no git
> no patches
> 
> os version:
> Linux version 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen 
> gcc version 4.1.2 20080704
> 
> Contents of ovs-vwitchd.conf:
> bridge.br0.port=br0
> bridge.br0.port=eth0
> bridge.br0.port=eth1
> 
> output of ovs-dpctl show:
> dp0:
> 	flows: cur:0, soft-max:512, hard-max:262144
> 	ports: cur:3, max:1024
> 	groups: max:16
> 	lookups: frags:0, hit:0, missed:0, lost:0
> 	queues: max-miss:100, max-action:100
> 	port 0: br0 (internal)
> 	port 1: eth0
> 	port 2: eth1
> 
> What actually happened:
> 	loss of network connectivity after
> 	% rmmod bridge
> 	% insmod datapath/linux-2.6/openvswitch_mod.ko
> 	% insmod datapath/linux-2.6/brcompat_mod.ko
> What was expected to happen:
> 	no loss of network connectivity 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> T Ficarra
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/12/09, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
>> Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] Loss of Network Connectivity
>> To: "Timothy Ficarra" <t.ficarra at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
>> Date: Monday, 7 December, 2009, 12:05 PM
>> Timothy Ficarra <t.ficarra at yahoo.com>
>> writes:
>> 
>>> After following the steps in 'Using Open vSwitch in
>> place of
>>> Linux bridging' the system is left in a state without
>> network
>>> connectivity. Is there any further configuration which
>> must be
>>> completed in order for the switch to function
>> properly?
>> 
>> There's too little information here to guess what went
>> wrong.
>> Could you include the information from the REPORTING-BUGS
>> file:
>>         http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=REPORTING-BUGS;hb=HEAD
>> This additional information might give us something to work
>> from.
>> 
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