[ovs-discuss] Problems

[Justin Pettit]

It doesn't look like ovs-brcompatd is running.  (Step 3 in INSTALL.bridge.)

--Justin


On Sep 28, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Federico Alves wrote:

> On  RHEl, I followed all the instruction to use openvswitch as a drop-in replacement for the Linux bridge. 
> Nevertheless, I get this error when I try to add a bridge:
> 
> brctl addbr br0
> add bridge failed: No such process
> 
> But everything needed is loaded
> 
> ps -auxx | grep ovs
> root      1382  0.0  0.1  39552  1844 ?        Ss   02:17   0:00 ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options --private-key=db:SSL,private_key --certificate=db:SSL,certificate --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert --pidfile --detach
> root      1384  0.0  0.1  40008  1368 ?        Ss   02:17   0:00 ovs-vswitchd --pidfile --detach
> root      1382  0.0  0.1  39552  1844 ?        Ss   02:17   0:00 ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,manager_options --private-key=db:SSL,private_key --certificate=db:SSL,certificate --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:SSL,ca_cert --pidfile --detach
>  
> And the modules as well
> lsmod 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> autofs4                27683  3 
> dm_mirror              14067  0 
> dm_region_hash         12136  1 dm_mirror
> dm_log                 10120  2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
> brcompat_mod            5647  0 
> openvswitch_mod        85042  1 brcompat_mod
> 
> If I add a bridge like this:
> 
> ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> 
> Then if I do "brctl show"
> 
> bridge name	bridge id		STP enabled	interfaces
> br0		/sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> /sys/class/net/br0/bridge: No such file or directory
> 0000.96aa85596141	no		
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Federico
> 
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