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<div dir="ltr" >If neutron-ovs-agent downs, it can't affect VM's network connectivity. VM's connectivity is the data plane meanwhile neutron agents( not just ovs agent ) are the control plane. Control plane and the data plane must be independent.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" >Thanks</div>
<div dir="ltr" >Zhi Chang</div>
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<blockquote data-history-content-modified="1" dir="ltr" style="border-left:solid #aaaaaa 2px; margin-left:5px; padding-left:5px; direction:ltr; margin-right:0px" >----- Original message -----<br>From: "Chen CH Ji" <jichenjc@cn.ibm.com><br>To: openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org<br>Cc:<br>Subject: [EXTERNAL] [neutron] do we need neutron-openvswitch-agent running in order to make VMs spawned with provider network?<br>Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 22:48<br>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt" ><div dir="ltr" ><div dir="ltr" >We are running provider network with VLAN /FLAT, does the neutron-openvswitch-agent is mandatory to be running in order to make the VM deployed able to connect outside? </div>
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<div dir="ltr" >e.g. I have a VM instance-00000027, I login the VM and ping out side, in the mean time, use another session to </div>
<div dir="ltr" >systemctl stop neutron-openvswitch-agent.service then wait for a few minutes, the ping will stop, does this is an expected behavior?</div>
<div dir="ltr" >I know nova-compute is not running won't affect VM functionality, but does neutron openvswitch agent is needed or not? Thanks a lot</div>
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<div dir="ltr" ><div>[root@kvm02 ~]# virsh list<br> Id Name State<br>-----------------------------------<br> 4 instance-00000027 running</div></div>
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<div dir="ltr" ><div>[root@kvm02 ~]# virsh console 4<br>Connected to domain instance-00000027<br>Escape character is ^]</div>
<div>[root@dede ~]# ping<br>[root@dede ~]# ping 172.16.32.1<br>PING 172.16.32.1 (172.16.32.1) 56(84) bytes of data.<br>64 bytes from 172.16.32.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=19.8 ms<br>64 bytes from 172.16.32.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.667 ms<br>64 bytes from 172.16.32.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.774 ms</div></div></div>
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<div dir="ltr" ><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" ><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; font-family: sans-serif; color: #7C7C5F;" >Ji Chen</div>
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<div><span style="font-weight: bold; color: #336699;" >E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:jichenjc@cn.ibm.com" style="color: #555" target="_blank" >jichenjc@cn.ibm.com</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>
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