[ovs-discuss] ovn-bridge-mappings configuration issue.

Russell Bryant russell at ovn.org
Mon Aug 21 15:47:27 UTC 2017


On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:43 AM, Rana, JaiSingh
<JaiSingh.Rana at cavium.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For configuring external gateway, ovn-controller man page says:
>
> "
>
> external_ids:ovn-bridge-mappings
>                      A list of key-value pairs that map a physical network
> name to a local ovs bridge that  provides  connectivity
>                      to  that  network.   An  example  value mapping two
> physical network names to two ovs bridges would be: phys‐
>                      net1:br-eth0,physnet2:br-eth1.
> "
>
>
> Created bridge br-ex and attached an interface p1p2 having external
> connectivity.
>
>
> # ovs-vsctl --may-exist add-br br-ex -- set bridge br-ex
> protocols=OpenFlow13
>
> # ovs-vsctl set open . external-ids:ovn-bridge-mappings=provider:br-ex
> # ovs-vsctl --may-exist add-port br-ex p1p2
>
>
> After configuring Openstack with external networks, ovn-controller on
> compute actually looks for bridge named "provider" in
> ovn/controller/patch.c : add_bridge_mappings, which of-course is not created
> but throws error that "br-ex" not found as can be seen in ovn-controller.log
>
> "2017-08-18T11:20:30.477Z|04536|patch|ERR| bridge not found for localnet
> port 'provnet-031111bf-ad69-4225-b69c-0cd23d7969af' with network name
> 'br-ex'"
>
> When this external-id is defined as ovn-bridge-mappings=br-ex:br-ex, it
> works fine and no error is thrown.
>
>
> Is this a bug or the field before ":" in this external-id represents bridge
> name.

The error message indicates that a "localnet" was created with a
"network_name" of "br-ex".  The "network_name" should be set to
"provider" in this example.

-- 
Russell Bryant


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