[ovs-discuss] simple open vswitch usage?

[Ben Pfaff]

That is what I meant.  But you also have to remove the IP address from
wlan0.

I couldn't say whether vboxnet0 is the correct default gateway.  Is
the Internet reachable through that interface?

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 12:26:26PM -0400, Ryan White wrote:
> " Did you move the IP address, if any, from wlan0 to br0?  This is
> necessary."
> Not sure what you mean. Do you mean using ifconfig? I hadn't done that, but
> I just tried it and it's still acting the same. (sudo ifconfig br0
> 192.168.1.173/24 up)
> Also on the VM I had set the default gateway to be the ip address of the
> vboxnet0 iface. Not sure if that's right either.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp at nicira.com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 12:07 PM
> To: Ryan White
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] simple open vswitch usage?
> 
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:09:45AM -0400, Ryan White wrote:
> > I am a bit of a networking newbie, and I just want to get some simple 
> > Open vSwitch usage. For instance, is it possible for a laptop with 
> > Open vSwitch and VirtualBox, to connect its virtual machine to the 
> > internet using a VBox host-only adapter bridged to wlan0, which is 
> > connected to the internet? How would I do this using ovs-vsctl?
> > 
> > I tried:
> > ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> > 
> > ovs-vsctl add-port vboxnet0
> > 
> > ovs-vsctl add-port wlan0
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > and this didn't do anything but make it impossible to even ping 
> > between the VM and laptop.
> 
> Did you move the IP address, if any, from wlan0 to br0?  This is necessary.
> 
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