[ovs-discuss] Getting OpenFlow Set Up

[Justin Pettit]

On Oct 17, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Derek Cormier wrote:

> When you add ports to a virtual bridge, should you still be able to ping them? For some reason, I cannot ping the interface on the switch that a host connects to. Yet, I can ping another host.

Do you mean, for example, if you add eth0 to br0, you can't ping the address assigned to eth0?  If so, then, no, you cannot ping the addresses of attached devices.  You can assign the IP address to br0, though, and that should work.

--Justin