Yes, I stopped network manager from running DHCP client on OVS interfaces.

By total control, I meant no other local process can see/write to the OVS 
controlled interfaces.
I was wrong in my understanding.


Thanks,
Hardik Soni

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ansis Atteka" <[email protected]>
> To: "Hardik Soni" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Gurucharan Shetty" <[email protected]>, "[email protected] 
> discuss" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 June, 2015 8:49:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] dhcp request originating from interfaces attached 
> to OVS
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Hardik Soni <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I thought OVS takes total control on the interfaces it handles.
> 
> Could you define "total control"?
> 
> > How to stop this "DHCP request" messages?
> 
> It is not Open vSwitch that chooses whether DHCP client will be
> running for particular network interface. For example on Ubuntu 15.04,
> If I do
> 
> ps -Af | grep dhclient
> root      1011   773  0 Jun22 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -q
> -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf
> /run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dhclient-wlan0.pid -lf
> /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-cfb34368-76b5-4d00-93e0-6499bd8cf2cc-wlan0.lease
> -cf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-wlan0.conf wlan0
> root     12214   773  0 11:30 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -q
> -sf /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf
> /run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dhclient-eth0.pid -lf
> /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-0e5f5c89-6b38-4564-941f-f7aa54b4deae-eth0.lease
> -cf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-eth0.conf eth0
> 
> And then search for parent process (773 in my case):
> root       773     1  0 Jun22 ?        00:00:22
> /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
> 
> It says that it is NetworkManager that started dhclient (and not any
> of Open vSwitch processes). So, if you don't want to run DHCP client
> on OVS interfaces, then make sure that you are using the right Network
> Manager configuration -
> http://support.qacafe.com/knowledge-base/how-do-i-prevent-network-manager-from-controlling-an-interface/
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hardik Soni
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Gurucharan Shetty" <[email protected]>
> >> To: "Hardik Soni" <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: "[email protected] discuss" <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Monday, 22 June, 2015 7:56:44 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] dhcp request originating from interfaces
> >> attached to OVS
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Hardik Soni <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > Is there any possibility that OVS allows DHCP request (broadcast)
> >> > originating from the interfaces(mostly virtual interfaces like
> >> > tap/tunnel)
> >> > controlled by itself?
> >> Yes. That is possible.
> >>
> >>
> >> > The NetworkManager is running on the system, is there any possibility
> >> > that
> >> > NM is trying assign IP to the interfaces controlled by OVS?
> >> That is possible too.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Hardik Soni
> >> >
> >> >
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