[ovs-discuss] netctl & openvswitch after shutdown -r now

[Ben]

Thanks for your reply.
If I remember well openvswitch keeps the configuration even after a 
reboot, perhaps the issue is caused by netctl which tries to erase 
everything again? (then if it is the case it should have a difference 
between reboot and starting from a cold start).

By the way speaking about netctl I am using this :

nano /etc/netctl/vswitch_trust
Description='Trusted Virtual Switch'
Interface=vswitch_trust
Connection=openvswitch
BindsToInterfaces=(eth1 eth2 eth3)
IP=static
Address=('10.20.8.10/24')
#Routes=('192.168.0.0/24 via 192.168.1.2')
Gateway='10.20.8.254'
DNS=('80.67.169.12')

Do you know if it is possible to indicate some vlan tag for eth1 eth2 
eth3 directly in netctl conf?
I am asking this because apparently openvswitch is supported as I am 
using Connection=openvswitch.

Many thanks

Ben

On 07/06/15 17:52, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> It's hard for me to guess whether this is an issue related to netctl or
> to openvswitch.  It could be either one, but I would be inclined to
> consider netctl first because Open vSwitch doesn't have any problems
> with reboots when properly integrated to the software that controls it.
>
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 02:15:27AM +0200, Ben wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I have probably not been too accurate, let me try to explain:
>> I am using netcl to manage my network connection.
>> I have created one file in /etc/netctl named vswitch_trust
>>
>> nano /etc/netctl/vswitch_trust
>> Description='Trusted Virtual Switch'
>> Interface=vswitch_trust
>> Connection=openvswitch
>> BindsToInterfaces=(eth1 eth2 eth3)
>> IP=static
>> Address=('10.20.8.10/24')
>> #Routes=('192.168.0.0/24 via 192.168.1.2')
>> Gateway='10.20.8.254'
>> DNS=('80.67.169.12')
>>
>> Then I activated it with netctl enable vswitch_trust, then I should be able
>> to retrieve everything when my computer boots.
>> I can confirm that it is working correctly when my computer is poweroff and
>> I power on then all my openvswitch configuration came back with the
>> information I put on my vswitch_trust file.
>> The problem is when I am on my computer and decide to do a reboot (shutdown
>> -r now), then when the computer is rebooting all the rules are back but
>> impossible to ping it not to ping external from the computer.
>>
>> To summarize when my computer goes from poweroff to power on everything is
>> ok but when I decide to reboot the computer then after the reboot my
>> interface is not responding at all. (I need to do a manual netctl stop
>> vswitch_trust and netctl start vswitch_trust to make it work)
>>
>> On 06/06/15 21:41, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 06:13:32PM +0200, Ben wrote:
>>>> Working with openvswitch with netctl and I notice a problem when I shutdown
>>>> -r now (strange thing is that I don't have this error when I poweroff my
>>>> unit and start it again in this situation everything is working well).
>>>> When I shutdown -r now, I am unable to reach my unit, it is like netctl
>>>> tries to add everything again but it has not been deleted correctly before.
>>> I'm confused.  It sounds like you're turning off your computer and
>>> complaining that it no longer works.  Presumably this is not what you
>>> are actually doing, can you explain?

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