No. The local port is the port with the same name as the bridge itself.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 07:11:42PM +0300, Amer wrote: > Do you want me to give one of the Ethernet interfaces an IP address= the > bridge IP, without assigning this interface to the bridge. > > Best regards, > Amer > > م، كتب Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>: > Well, like you said, without flows, ping works. So pass through the > > ICMP traffic to the gateway to the IP stack (presumably the bridge's > > local port) and let it do the ICMP responses. > > > >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 06:40:10PM +0300, Amer wrote: > >> Thank you Ben > >> The problem is the host need to have a gateway, however, if he can't ping > >> the gateway, nothing will be forwarded. > >> However, how can I pass the ICMP packets to the IP stack? > >> > >> Best regards, > >> Amer > >> > >> : > >> > >>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 02:29:07PM +0300, Amer wrote: > >>>> I have 4 VMs, 2 bridges and each one has a host. > >>>> My question is: > >>>> I need to configure a default gateway for the hosts, however when I > >>>> added flow rules to the bridges, suddenly, I can't ping them from the > >>>> hosts. I know this is due to the rules. > >>>> When the host can't ping the bridge, how I configure it to be the > >>>> gateway. > >>>> I need to add a flow-rule to make the bridge respond to ping requests? > >>>> What is the rule to do so? > >>> > >>> I don't think you can do that through flows. It is probably better to > >>> configure the flows so that anything that needs an ICMP response is > >>> passed through to the IP stack. > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
