[Openstack-operators] neutron flat network on existing bridge fails

George Paraskevas paraskgeor at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 15:39:58 UTC 2016


Hello,
With Linux bridge, I believe you should use physical _interface_mappings
=provider:br224
Beat regards
George

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, 16:48 Paul Dekkers, <paul.dekkers at surfnet.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.1 with it's Mitaka release, and neutron flat
> networking with linuxbridge+ml2:
>
> I'd like to attach my flat neutron network to an existing linuxbridge on
> my system. This fails with an error like:
>
> 2016-08-16 15:07:00.711 7982 DEBUG
> neutron.plugins.ml2.drivers.linuxbridge.agent.linuxbridge_neutron_agent
> [req-720266dc-fe8d-47c4-a7df-19fee7a8d679 - - - - -] Skip adding device
> tapf99013c6-6b to br224. It is owned by compute:nova and thus added
> elsewhere. _add_tap_interface
>
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/neutron/plugins/ml2/drivers/linuxbridge/agent/linuxbridge_neutron_agent.py:473
>
> with the result that the tap interface is added to a newly created
> bridge instead of the existing (br224) bridge.
>
> I've set
> bridge_mappings = provider:br224
> in /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/linuxbridge_agent.ini
>
> (because if I use
> physical_interface_mappings = provider:vlan224
> the vlan224 interface is actually detached from the original bridge)
>
> I've created the bridge via /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> auto br224
> iface br224 inet manual
>         bridge_ports vlan224
>
> auto vlan224
> iface vlan224 inet manual
>         vlan_raw_device eno1
>
> Reason for doing this is that I'd like to attach an lxc container to
> this bridge (and only when neutron needs it the "brqf709c220-fd" (with
> for me an unpredictable name) is setup, so I can't use that), and/or
> like to have the machine itself use an interface on this network. (This
> is also my reason for using flat networking, and not vlan.)
>
> I've created the neutron networks with
>
> neutron net-create default --shared --provider:physical_network provider
> --provider:network_type flat
>
> (I would repeat this with a different physical_network name if I need
> more VLANs, instead of using the --provider:segmentation_id.)
>
> Instance networking works when I let nova/neutron create the bridge
> interfaces.
>
> Any idea why neutron refuses to use the bridge_mappings and why it
> creates a new interface?
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
> P.S. To me it feels like this is what people would need when setting up
> a small single-network setup (both for instances and OpenStack), but
> most examples use multiple networks anyway.
>
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