[ovs-discuss] Bridge pinging rules

[Ben Pfaff]

Well, like you said, without flows, ping works.  So pass through the
ICMP traffic to the gateway to the IP stack (presumably the bridge's
local port) and let it do the ICMP responses.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 06:40:10PM +0300, Amer wrote:
> Thank you Ben
> The problem is the host need to have a gateway, however, if he can't ping the gateway, nothing will be forwarded.
> However, how can I pass the ICMP packets to the IP stack?
> 
> Best regards,
> Amer
> 
> ‏:‬
> 
> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 02:29:07PM +0300, Amer wrote:
> >> I have 4 VMs, 2 bridges and each one has a host.
> >> My question is:
> >> I need to configure a default gateway for the hosts, however when I added flow rules to the bridges, suddenly, I can't ping them from the hosts. I know this is due to the rules.
> >> When the host can't ping the bridge, how I configure it to be the gateway.
> >> I need to add a flow-rule to make the bridge respond to ping requests? What is the rule to do so?
> > 
> > I don't think you can do that through flows.  It is probably better to
> > configure the flows so that anything that needs an ICMP response is
> > passed through to the IP stack.
> >