[ovs-discuss] How to use OVS with real Host ?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Sep 23 19:08:43 UTC 2011


Maybe you should just explain what your network topology looks like.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:39:43AM -0700, David Nguyen wrote:
> hi Ben,
> thanks for your reply. I try with your syntax but not work.
> 
> ??When I ping Host1 -->Host 2 :??"destination host is unreachable "
> 
> In theorie : first, when I ping Host 1-->host 2 , signal will to be of-host1 of br0 of OVS host . OVS protocol will see the part of signal in Openflow table and choice Port of-host2 to send the Signal. ???
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> To: David Nguyen <papienguyen at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "discuss at openvswitch.org" <discuss at openvswitch.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 4:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] How to use OVS with real Host ?
> 
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:47:05AM -0700, David Nguyen wrote:
> > ? ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> > ? sudo ifconfig br0 up
> > ? ovs-vsctl add-port br0?of-host1?
> > ??ovs-vsctl add-port br0?of-host2
> > ? ovs-vsctl set interface of-host1 options:remote_ip=10.1.2.3
> > ? ?ovs-vsctl set interface of-host2 options:remote_ip=10.1.1.3
> 
> Are you trying to configure GRE tunnels?? If you expect
> options:remote_ip to do anything useful, you need to set the interface
> types to "gre", e.g.
> ? ? ? ovs-vsctl set interface of-host1 type=gre
> ? ? ? ovs-vsctl set interface of-host2 type=gre



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