[ovs-discuss] open vswitch adding virtual host leading loss internet connectivity from physical host

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Sat Apr 21 07:14:17 UTC 2012


I don't know what m1 and m2 are, but I suspect your host connectivity problem is that you need to move the IP address from eth0 to br0.

--Justin


On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Abhy Padiyar wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am trying open vswitch to try out connect to vm host running on diffrent physical host.
> 
> I am facing some similar to one described in the this forum link
> http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2011-April/004979.html
> 
> 
> 
> i tried following
> ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
> 
> I would like virtual host on m1 to connect to vm host on m2.
> But once i add the eth0 to my virtual sw br0 ...i am not able to connect to internet either from vm host or physical host.
> on wireshark all the traffic seems to come to br0...i suspect why normal linux eth driver processing the normal traffic via eth0 ... 
> 
> I need your help to understand the problem and fix it....could you please share your views
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