[ovs-discuss] Ifconfig Not Showing Bridge Devices.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:18:31AM -0700, Cali Ente wrote:
> Ok so openvswitch starts up fine. Everything seems good until I add the
> virtual bridge (Log output at the bottom). 'ovs-vsctl show' still displays
> the bridge I created and I can add ports to it. However it does not show up
> under ifconfig. I am guessing  "2000-02-05T21:48:08Z|00007|
> dpif|WARN|failed to create datapath ovs-system: Message too long" is the
> problem. Does this have to do with the openvswitch kernel module
> communicating with the linux network stack?

Yes.  The problem could be in userspace or on the kernel side.  You
might want to hex-dump the messages being sent to the kernel and
verify that they look sensible.