[ovs-discuss] How to smoothly add eth0 to the OVS bridge?

[Saul St. John]

Do you know whether br0 is actually up once the script terminates?

I've found that I sometimes need to explicitly 'ifconfig br0 up', 
although I'm not really sure why.

On 02/19/2013 07:01 PM, Jing Ai wrote:
> The script is located on the remote host. I ran it after ssh to the 
> remote host.
>
> Now I changed to your way, say from my own host, I issued the 
> following command:
>
> ssh root@<remote host> "ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0; ifconfig eth0 0; 
> ifconfig br0 <eth0's ip address>"
>
> However, I still lost connection to the remote host. Did I still do 
> sth wrong?
>
> Best,
> Jing
>
> > From: rprice at nicira.com
> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:57:43 -0800
> > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] How to smoothly add eth0 to the OVS bridge?
> > To: ai_jing2000 at hotmail.com
> > CC: bugs at openvswitch.org
> >
> > Is the script local or remote? You need to run the command 
> atomically from the
> > remote perspective. This means you need the ssh command to be a 
> single one,
> > likely along the lines of:
> >
> > ssh user at remote remote_script
> >
> > or
> >
> > ssh user at remote "command && command ; command"
> >
> > . A local script would not work unless it invoked all the commands 
> on a single
> > command line. Hope this helps.
> >
> > -Reid
> >
> > PS here's the FAQ note you're referencing:
> > (If your only connection to the machine running OVS is through the
> > IP address in question, then you would want to run all of these
> > commands on a single command line, or put them into a script.)
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Jing Ai <ai_jing2000 at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > I've noticed that there is already a FAQ illustrating the steps to 
> add eth0
> > > to the bridge, e.g., br0 as follows.
> > >
> > > ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> > > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
> > > ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
> > > ifconfig br0 <eth0's IP address>
> > >
> > > Since I issued the above commands on a remote host via ssh, I also 
> put them
> > > in a script as instructed. However, when I run such a script, I 
> immediately
> > > lost the connection to the remote host. Any idea?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Jing
> > >
> > >
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