[Openstack-operators] [Openstack] Strange: lost physical connectivity to compute hosts when using native (ryu) openflow interface

Kevin Benton kevin at benton.pub
Fri Apr 28 20:07:02 UTC 2017


With the network down, does ovs-vsctl show that it is connected to the
controller?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gustavo Randich <gustavo.randich at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Exactly, we access via a tagged interface, which is part of br-ex
>
> # ip a show vlan171
> 16: vlan171: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc noqueue
> state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
>     link/ether 8e:14:8d:c1:1a:5f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 10.171.1.240/20 brd 10.171.15.255 scope global vlan171
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>     inet6 fe80::8c14:8dff:fec1:1a5f/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>
> # ovs-vsctl show
>     ...
>     Bridge br-ex
>         Controller "tcp:127.0.0.1:6633"
>             is_connected: true
>         Port "vlan171"
>             tag: 171
>             Interface "vlan171"
>                 type: internal
>     ...
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Kevin Benton <kevin at benton.pub> wrote:
>
>> Ok, that's likely not the issue then. I assume the way you access each
>> host is via an IP assigned to an OVS bridge or an interface that somehow
>> depends on OVS?
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2017 12:04, "Gustavo Randich" <gustavo.randich at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Kevin, we are using the default listen address of loopback interface:
>>>
>>> # grep -r of_listen_address /etc/neutron
>>> /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini:#of_listen_address =
>>> 127.0.0.1
>>>
>>>
>>>         tcp/127.0.0.1:6640 -> ovsdb-server /etc/openvswitch/conf.db
>>> -vconsole:emer -vsyslog:err -vfile:info --remote=punix:/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
>>> --private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key
>>> --certificate=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,certificate
>>> --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,ca_cert --no-chdir
>>> --log-file=/var/log/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.log
>>> --pidfile=/var/run/openvswitch/ovsdb-server.pid --detach --monitor
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Kevin Benton <kevin at benton.pub> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you using an of_listen_address value of an interface being brought
>>>> down?
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 25, 2017 17:34, "Gustavo Randich" <gustavo.randich at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> (using Mitaka / Ubuntu 16 / Neutron DVR / OVS / VXLAN / l2_population)
>>>>>
>>>>> This sounds very strange (to me): recently, after a switch outage, we
>>>>> lost connectivity to all our Mitaka hosts. We had to enter via iLO host by
>>>>> host and restart networking service to regain access. Then restart
>>>>> neutron-openvswitch-agent to regain access to VMs.
>>>>>
>>>>> At first glance we thought it was a problem with the NIC linux driver
>>>>> of the hosts not detecting link state correctly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then we reproduced the issue simply bringing down physical interfaces
>>>>> for around 5 minutes, then up again. Same issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> And then.... we found that if instead of using native (ryu) OpenFlow
>>>>> interface in Neutron Openvswitch we used ovs-ofctl, the problem disappears.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any clue?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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