[ovs-discuss] Single nic server and ovn

Vasiliy Tolstov v.tolstov at selfip.ru
Wed Dec 19 21:51:02 UTC 2018


As i understand in various tutorials i need to add ethernet device to
ovs to be able to send traffic or use localnet port

ср, 19 дек. 2018 г. в 20:16, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>:
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 09:56:28AM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> > Hi, i have some servers that have only one nic for network. As i understand
> > for ovn i need to add this interface to ovs bridge.
> > But for host access i need some ip address on server and also if ovs or ovn
> > is down or something else with this services i can't connect to server.
> > How to deal with such case? Or only one thing is to create localnet port in
> > ovn?
>
> OVN shouldn't need to take over your NIC.  In the most common case it
> only deals with tunnels, which get their own bridge and do not need
> direct access to the NIC.



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