[Openstack] OpenVSwitch inside Instance no ARP passthrough

Benjamin Diaz bdiaz at whitestack.com
Thu Feb 1 13:28:15 UTC 2018


Dear Mathias,

Could you attach a diagram of your network configuration and of what you
are trying to achieve?
Are you trying to install OVS inside a VM? If so, why?

Greetings,
Benjamin

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Volodymyr Litovka <doka.ua at gmx.com> wrote:

> Dear Mathias,
>
> if I correctly understand your configuration, you're using bridges inside
> VM and it configuration looks a bit strange:
>
> 1) you use two different bridges (OVSbr1/192.168.120.x and
> OVSbr2/192.168.110.x) and there is no patch between them so they're separate
> 2) while ARP requests for address in OVSbr1 arrives from OVSbr2:
>
> > 18:50:58.080478 ARP, Request who-has *192.168.120.10* tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
> >
> > but on the OVS bridge nothing arrives ...
> >
> > listening on *OVSbr2*, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size
> > 262144 bytes
>
> while these bridges are separate, ARP requests and answers will not be
> passed between them.
>
> Regarding your devstack configuration - unfortunately, I don't have
> experience with devstack, so don't know, where it stores configs. In
> Openstack, ml2_conf.ini points to openvswitch in ml2's mechanism_drivers
> parameter, in my case it looks as the following:
>
> [ml2]
> mechanism_drivers = l2population,openvswitch
>
> and rest of openvswitch config described in /etc/neutron/plugins/ml2/
> openvswitch_agent.ini
>
> Second - I see an ambiguity in your br-tun configuration, where patch_int
> is the same as patch-int without corresponding remote peer config, probably
> you should check this issue.
>
> And third is - note that Mitaka is quite old release and probably you can
> give a chance for the latest release of devstack? :-)
>
>
> On 1/31/18 10:49 PM, Mathias Strufe (DFKI) wrote:
>
> Dear Volodymyr, all,
>
> thanks for your fast answer ...
> but I'm still facing the same problem, still can't ping the instance with
> configured and up OVS bridge ... may because I'm quite new to OpenStack and
> OpenVswitch and didn't see the problem ;)
>
> My setup is devstack Mitaka in single machine config ... first of all I
> didn't find there the openvswitch_agent.ini anymore, I remember in previous
> version it was in the neutron/plugin folder ...
> Is this config now done in the ml2 config file in the [OVS] section????
>
>
> I'm really wondering ...
> so I can ping between the 2 instances without any problem. But as soon I
> bring up the OVS bridge inside the vm the ARP requests only visible at the
> ens interface but not reaching the OVSbr ...
>
> please find attached two files which may help for troubleshooting. One are
> some network information from inside the Instance that runs the OVS and one
> ovs-vsctl info of the OpenStack Host.
>
> If you need more info/logs please let me know! Thanks for your help!
>
> BR Mathias.
>
>
> On 2018-01-27 22:44, Volodymyr Litovka wrote:
>
> Hi Mathias,
>
>  whether you have all corresponding bridges and patches between them
> as described in openvswitch_agent.ini using
>
>  integration_bridge
>  tunnel_bridge
>  int_peer_patch_port
>  tun_peer_patch_port
>  bridge_mappings
>
>  parameters? And make sure, that service "neutron-ovs-cleanup" is in
> use during system boot. You can check these bridges and patches using
> "ovs-vsctl show" command.
>
> On 1/27/18 9:00 PM, Mathias Strufe (DFKI) wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm quite new to openstack and like to install openVSwtich inside
> one Instance of our Mitika openstack Lab Enviornment ...
> But it seems that ARP packets got lost between the network
> interface of the instance and the OVS bridge ...
>
> With tcpdump on the interface I see the APR packets ...
>
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol
> decode
> listening on ens6, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144
> bytes
> 18:50:58.080478 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.120.10 tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
> 18:50:58.125009 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
> 18:50:59.077315 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.120.10 tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
> 18:50:59.121369 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
> 18:51:00.077327 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.120.10 tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
> 18:51:00.121343 ARP, Request who-has 192.168.120.1 tell
> 192.168.120.6, length 28
>
> but on the OVS bridge nothing arrives ...
>
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol
> decode
> listening on OVSbr2, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size
> 262144 bytes
>
> I disabled port_security and removed the security group but nothing
> changed
>
>
> +-----------------------+-----------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------+
>
>
> | Field | Value
> |
>
> +-----------------------+-----------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------+
>
>
> | admin_state_up | True
> |
> | allowed_address_pairs |
> |
> | binding:host_id | node11
> |
> | binding:profile | {}
> |
> | binding:vif_details | {"port_filter": true, "ovs_hybrid_plug":
> true} |
> | binding:vif_type | ovs
> |
> | binding:vnic_type | normal
> |
> | created_at | 2018-01-27T16:45:48Z
> |
> | description |
> |
> | device_id | 74916967-984c-4617-ae33-b847de73de13
> |
> | device_owner | compute:nova
> |
> | extra_dhcp_opts |
> |
> | fixed_ips | {"subnet_id":
> "525db7ff-2bf2-4c64-b41e-1e41570ec358", "ip_address":
> "192.168.120.10"} |
> | id | 74b754d6-0000-4c2e-bfd1-87f640154ac9
> |
> | mac_address | fa:16:3e:af:90:0c
> |
> | name |
> |
> | network_id | 917254cb-9721-4207-99c5-8ead9f95d186
> |
> | port_security_enabled | False
> |
> | project_id | c48457e73b664147a3d2d36d75dcd155
> |
> | revision_number | 27
> |
> | security_groups |
> |
> | status | ACTIVE
> |
> | tenant_id | c48457e73b664147a3d2d36d75dcd155
> |
> | updated_at | 2018-01-27T18:54:24Z
> |
>
> +-----------------------+-----------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------+
>
>
>
> maybe the port_filter causes still the problem? But how to disable
> it?
>
> Any other idea?
>
> Thanks and BR Mathias.
>
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*Benjamín Díaz*
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