[ovs-discuss] Cannot add a port to a created bridge

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sun May 3 18:19:23 UTC 2015


On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 07:37:16PM +0200, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
> I've manually compiled and installed openvswitch from the git sources,
> following all the installation procedures from the install.md file, with
> one exception:
> I've replaced the last line of the step 6 with:
> ovsdb-tool create /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db
> /usr/local/share/openvswitch/vswitch.ovsschema
> 
> All the steps have been successfully completed, except the last one:
> *ovs-vsctl add-br ovsbr0*
> *ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr0 eth0*
> *ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'eth0'.  See ovs-vswitchd log
> for details*
> 
> Unfortunately, no log file has been created so what is going on?

You'll need to look in the log.  Try syslog if you didn't configure a
log file.



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