[ovs-discuss] With network service restart, patch interfaces disappear

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Sat Jun 25 17:47:46 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 12:26:04AM -0600, Sterdnot Shaken wrote:
> I have 2 OVS (2.5) bridges (on one host) connected to each other with a
> patch interface, which works great. If I restart networking though, the
> patch interfaces disappear (as does the vnet interfaces connecting KVM VM's
> to the bridge) and all ovs-vsctl show displays are the bridge interfaces
> and some physical interfaces.
> 
> Looking in conf.db,  I can see the patch interfaces, so I thought that by
> restarting the openvswitch service, the patch interfaces would reappear and
> reconnect the bridges, but that didn't happen. Out side of restarting the
> whole host, what's the fix for this?

Restarting OVS shouldn't have any effect on patch ports, so I'm as
puzzled as you are.

What's in the database?  Start with "ovs-vsctl show".

Thanks,

Ben.



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