[ovs-discuss] can't bring up bridge interfaces created by the the ovs after rebooting the server

JinHwan Hwang calanchue at gmail.com
Thu May 30 00:41:09 UTC 2013


(English is not my first language. Sorry for my poor English )

OS :
Linux nc233 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 15 17:16:46 CDT 2012
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
open vswitch : 1.11.90

I installed the ovs by using source install. At that time it worked
properly. But after rebooting the server, i can't bring up bridge interface
created by the ovs anymore.

There are some mistakes i'm worrying about. When I rebooted the server, I
didn't expected that the ovs setting would disappeared if i don't  force it
to exist consistently. Therefore, i didn't configured something about that.
After the reboot, I found that the bridge module and ifconfig setting are
rolled back as if i didn't configured about the ovs.

So, I do rmmod bridge and insmod the ovs modules again. And then started
the ovs db. There were similar with installing from scratch except building
it(literally i copied and pasted command from INSTALL file included in the
distribution). After that, i could find what i configured before.

# ovs-vsctl show
76d9d6aa-cfce-4868-bf99-7d16bcfe38eb
    Bridge "br0"
        Port "br0"
            Interface "br0"
                type: internal
        Port "eth1"
            Interface "eth1"

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5C:F3:FC:29:C7:12
          inet addr:172.16.222.233  Bcast:172.16.222.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1415586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4897 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:120257509 (114.6 MiB)  TX bytes:1025583 (1001.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:91a80000-91aa0000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5C:F3:FC:29:C7:13
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1286611 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:27647 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:114004322 (108.7 MiB)  TX bytes:3728677 (3.5 MiB)
          Interrupt:19 Memory:91980000-919a0000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1538 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:93110 (90.9 KiB)  TX bytes:93110 (90.9 KiB)

usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5E:F3:FC:29:C7:15
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


There were no problems until that time, So i tried to bring up the bridge
br0  configured in ovs-vsctl. But it turns out that there are no bridge
named br0.

# ifconfig br0 up
br0: unknown interface: No such device

Furthermore, I can't create new bridge interface by using ovs-vsctl.
I created br2 after configuring newly. But it also returned me same error
as did to br2.

# ovs-vsctl show
76d9d6aa-cfce-4868-bf99-7d16bcfe38eb
    Bridge "br0"
        Port "br0"
            Interface "br0"
                type: internal
        Port "eth1"
            Interface "eth1"
    Bridge "br2"
        Port "br2"
            Interface "br2"
                type: internal

# ifconfig br2 up
br2: unknown interface: No such device

What is wrong with what i did? Is doing nothing before rebooting the ovs a
real critical issue? or there are maybe something wrong with reconfiguring
the ovs?

Thank you for reading.
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