[ovs-dev] [bug] failed to add ovs bridge

fukaige fukaige at huawei.com
Thu May 18 00:47:51 UTC 2017


No. I just hit this in the situation. Do you think this is a bug? What's your next plan?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at ovn.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 11:55 PM
> To: fukaige
> Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [bug] failed to add ovs bridge
> 
> Do you still see failures when the Linux bridge is not involved at all?
> 
> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 03:52:54AM +0000, fukaige wrote:
> > I start a vm with its backend tap device "vnet0" attached to a Linux bridge,
> then delete the bridge and vm.
> > Next time, vm will start failed. this is as expected. But, seeing that
> > linux bridge was already delelted; there is no reason that the OVS bridge with
> the same name can not be created. What do you think?
> >
> > Thanks
> > fukaige
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at ovn.org]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 11:37 AM
> > > To: fukaige
> > > Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
> > > Subject: Re: [bug] failed to add ovs bridge
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 01:16:11AM +0000, fukaige wrote:
> > > > I am using ovs-2.5.2 and get error when creating a bridge using
> > > > “ovs-vsctl
> > > add-br br-eth”
> > >
> > > > brctl addbr br0;ifconfig br0 up
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > ifconfig br0 down; brctl delbr br0
> > > >
> > > > ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> > > >
> > > > ovs-vsctl del-br br0
> > >
> > > Wait, what?  Why are you mixing brctl and ovs-vsctl?  That makes no
> sense.
> > > Use the Linux bridge *or* OVS, not a mix of them.


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