[ovs-dev] Fwd: [ovs-discuss] Regarding open-vSwitch errors

APURVA PATIL apurvap25 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 3 05:36:14 UTC 2013


And how does that occur in Bridge networking ??




On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:48 PM, APURVA PATIL <apurvap25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On establishing the open-vSwitch connection on the host , I have a doubt
> in
> > properly understanding the folloowing problems :
> >
> >  I am not getting the networking details how does the host gets Internet
> > connectivity even when the eth0 gets an IP of 0.0.0.0?
> > Is it  through br0?
>
> Yes.
>
> > What doe up while specifying eth0 to become 0.0.0.0 specify ?
> > How does that actually work?
> > And how do the VMs get the Internet connectivity just by enabling the
> option
> > to connect to the bridge during its installation?
> > Means how does the VMs also get IP addresses?
> >           Networking part is not at all understood.
>
> OVS is operating as a layer 2 switch.  The various IP stacks of the
> host and VMs connect to ports on the switch, just like in the physical
> world.
>



-- 
Apurva Shirish Patil
B.Tech(I.T.)
CoEP
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