[ovs-discuss] SSL errors with OVS on Alpine Linux

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Wed Aug 28 16:42:05 UTC 2019


On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 06:12:00PM -0700, Shivaram Mysore wrote:
> I am running OVS on Alpine Linux
> <https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/openvswitch> (
> ovs-vswitchd
> (Open vSwitch) 2.10.1) and getting SSL errors.  I have a similar setup on
> Ubuntu and other COTS switches with same/similar certs and I don't have any
> issues.
> 
> I am getting errors like below
> 
> 2019-08-28T00:55:38.905Z|01201|rconn|INFO|ovs-br0<->ssl:10.22.23.97:6653:
> connecting...
> 2019-08-28T00:55:38.905Z|01202|stream_ssl|ERR|Certificate must be
> configured to use SSL

I'd look farther back in the log to see whether OVS reported a problem
reading or parsing the certificate in question.

I am not aware of anything special SSL-related on Alpine.  I do not
remember other reports of SSL problems specific to Alpine.


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