I see,

Just curious, seems that you used linux bond right?  May i know the bond
mode?

Are you aware of that ovs also supports bonding?  And based on your
description, I think you may want to use bond-mode=active-back... in which
case, ovs will not mac learning on pkts from the standby iface.

Thanks,
Alex Wang,

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Krist van Besien <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
> No, this is an openstack installation, so, linux, ivm and openvswitch.
> And the problem indeed was really due to the interfaces being in
> promiscuous mode. I'll rebuild my networking node with this in mind.
>
> Krist
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Alex Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey Krist,
> >
> > are you using esx?  if so, do you add the two ports of the bond on the
> same
> > switch in esx (or vsphere)?  the two ports should be added to two
> different
> > switch~
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex Wang,
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Krist van Besien <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It was indeed related to the interfaces being in promiscuous mode. I
> >> managed to find the root cause, and have a workaround.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Chris Bennett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> >> I'm running my LXC base & container on top of VMware ESX, and thus my
> >> >> vSwitch
> >> > has to be in promiscuous mode.  I'm seeing frames coming in on the
> >> > uplink port
> >> > (equiv to your port 1) with a source mac of that of the LXC container.
> >> > That to
> >> > me would explain why OVS's fdb shows port id 1 for those mac
> addresses.
> >> >
> >>
> >> The networking hosts have two interfaces, which are bonded. This is
> >> the cause of the ovswitch seeing arp requests also appearing on port
> >> 1, and thus incorrectly learning where that mac address is.
> >> I disabled on link, and the problem went away.
> >>
> >> However I need both those links for redundance. So now the question
> >> has become how to use these two links, without creating arp loops.
> >>
> >> Any ideas there?
> >>
> >> Krist
> >>
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