Dear colleagues,
just faced an issue with Openvswitch, which looks strange for me. The problem is that any particular VM receives a lot of packets, which are unicasted: - from other VMs which reside on the same host (let's name them "local VMs") - to other VMs which reside on other hosts (let's name them "remote VMs")
Long output from "ovs-ofctl dump-flows br-int" which, as far as I can narrow, ends there:
# ovs-ofctl dump-flows br-int |grep " table=94," |egrep "n_packets=[123456789]" cookie=0xaf6b1435fe826bdf, duration=2952350.695s, table=94, n_packets=291494723, n_bytes=40582103074, idle_age=0, hard_age=65534, priority=1 actions=NORMAL
coming to normal processing (classic MAC learning). Looking into br-int MAC-table (ovs-appctl fdb/show br-int) shows, that there are really no MAC addresses of remote VMs and br-int behaves in the right way, flooding unknown unicast to all ports in this L2 segment.
Of course, there is br-tun which connected over vxlan to all other hosts and to br-int:
Bridge br-tun Controller "tcp:127.0.0.1:6633" is_connected: true fail_mode: secure Port "vxlan-0a960008" Interface "vxlan-0a960008" type: vxlan options: {df_default="true", in_key=flow, local_ip="10.150.0.5", out_key=flow, remote_ip="10.150.0.8"} [ ... ] Port br-tun Interface br-tun type: internal Port patch-int Interface patch-int type: patch options: {peer=patch-tun}
but MAC table on br-tun is empty as well:
# ovs-appctl fdb/show br-tun port VLAN MAC Age #
Finally, packets get to destination, while being copied to all ports on source host, which is serious security issue.
I do not think so conceived by design, I rather think we missed something in configuration. Can anybody point me where we're wrong and help with this issue?
We're using Openstack Rocky and OVS 2.10.0 under Ubuntu 16.04. Network configuration is:
@controller: # cat /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/ml2_conf.ini |egrep -v "^$|^#" [DEFAULT] verbose = true [ml2] type_drivers = flat,vxlan tenant_network_types = vxlan mechanism_drivers = l2population,openvswitch extension_drivers = port_security,qos,dns_domain_ports [ml2_type_flat] flat_networks = provider [ml2_type_geneve] [ml2_type_gre] [ml2_type_vlan] [ml2_type_vxlan] vni_ranges = 400:400000 [securitygroup] firewall_driver = openvswitch enable_security_group = true enable_ipset = true
@agent: # cat /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/openvswitch_agent.ini |egrep -v "^$|^#" [DEFAULT] verbose = true [agent] tunnel_types = vxlan l2_population = true arp_responder = true extensions = qos [ovs] local_ip = 10.150.0.5 bridge_mappings = provider:br-ex [securitygroup] firewall_driver = openvswitch enable_security_group = true enable_ipset = true [xenapi]
Thank you.
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