[ovs-discuss] Fwd: Newbie question

[Dave Whitla]

Forgot to CC the list.


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> From: Dave Whitla <dave.whitla at ocean.net.au>
> Date: 6 January 2012 12:14:40 PM GMT+10:00
> To: Tyrion Lannister <tlannister12 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Newbie question
> 
> You must assign an IP to your bridge. It isn't migrated automagically. If you only have the one interface I would be inclined to enable bridge compatibility in OVS and configure the bridge initially via your Centos networking scripts.
> 
> On 06/01/2012, at 12:03 PM, Tyrion Lannister <tlannister12 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just installed OpenVswitch 1.3.0 on Centos 6 with KVM QEMU. I have some basic questions:
>> 
>> 1) I add a bridge br0 - ovs-vsctl add-br br0
>> 2) I attach eth0 to br0 - ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
>> 
>> I havent added any VMs yet, but I expect to still reach the hypervisor using IP.
>> 
>> eth0 is getting an IP address from the network using DHCP. But it is not pingable anymore. 
>> 
>> Shouldnt eth0 be a slave of br0 at this point. Shouldnt it be bridge0 that should own the address? How does one talk to the hypervisor at this point?
>> 
>> I must  be missing something fundamental here. Can someone please clarify what am I doing wrong or what I am missing?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Tyrion
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