<div dir="ltr">I submitted a doc patch: <a href="https://review.openstack.org/64729">https://review.openstack.org/64729</a><div><br></div><div>Lorin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tim Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch" target="_blank">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The additional information would be great to add to the docs since they currently do not seem to cover the combination of use cases.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">How about a bug report on that page ?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 02 January 2014 18:17<br>
<b>To:</b> Narayan Desai<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Openstack-operators] Problem configuring openvswitch br-ex<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more details on this, here's the relevant text from the openvswitch FAQ:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Q: I created a bridge and added my Ethernet port to it, using commands<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> like these:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> and as soon as I ran the "add-port" command I lost all connectivity<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A: A physical Ethernet device that is part of an Open vSwitch bridge<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> You can restore functionality by moving the IP address to an Open<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> vSwitch "internal" device, such as the network device named after<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> the bridge itself. For example, assuming that eth0's IP address is<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 192.168.128.5, you could run the commands below to fix up the<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> (If your only connection to the machine running OVS is through the<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> IP address in question, then you would want to run all of these<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> also want to use commands to adjust these routes to go through br0.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> If you use DHCP to obtain an IP address, then you should kill the<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> However, this is the way that the Linux kernel bridge module has<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> expect is not implementable without kernel changes on all the<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> By the way, this issue is not specific to physical Ethernet<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Narayan Desai <<a href="mailto:narayan.desai@gmail.com" target="_blank">narayan.desai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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