[ovs-discuss] Handling ARP flows

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 08:32:33PM -0400, John Thoe wrote:
> > At that point, the packet has passed out of the domain of Open vSwitch
> > into the kernel IP stack, so you need to consider reasons why the kernel
> > IP stack would not respond to an ICMP packet: routing, etc.
> 
> yes which is what surprises me because if I bring the bridge down, i am able to ping the host.
> 
> Am I correct in assuming that setting IP address to the bridge is enough for what I am trying or is there a better way? 		 	   		  
I don't know what your setup looks like.  As far as I can tell you
haven't told us much about it.