[ovs-discuss] after setting ovs-vsctl set open . external-ids:ovn-encap-ip=<IP>, eth0 stops tansmitting any packets in docker container

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 02:11:15AM +0000, Ritesh Rekhi wrote:
> To test scalability of controller, I made a docker container which simulates as chassis using the instructions given by Dustin http://blog.spinhirne.com/2016/09/a-primer-on-ovn.html.
> 
> Everything was working fine, I was able to connect to my controller and can see the flows coming back to my controller. I was using released version 2.6.0.
> 
> For some patches wanted to get latest version and found that after I upgrade to latest patch , my script doesn't work. Upon troubleshooting found that when I give the last command which establishes the connection to controller i.e ovs-vsctl set open . external-ids:ovn-encap-ip=<IP> , eth0 stopped Transmitting  any packets on the container.
> 
> I started poking around and found that commit "1ea9b847135eddca39ed95c0811edd605f6ca114" introduced this issue. If I use a commit before that things are working fine.

OK...  I'll need more information about your setup.  To start, can you
provide your OVN northbound and southbound databases?