On 03/08/2017 10:12 AM, David Gabriel wrote: > Dears, > > I have defined two ovs bridges, each one of them is deployed in one > Virtual Machine (VM) based on this simple topology: > Internet ----- OVS1 ----LAN---- OVS2 -----Internet > I used the following commands for OVS1: > ovs-vsctl add-br mybridge1 > ifconfig mybridge1 up > ovs-vsctl add-port eth1 mybridge1 //eth0 is dedicated for Internet > ifconfig eth1 0 > ovs-vsctl add-port eth1 mybridge1 > ovs-vsctl set-controller mybridge tcp:AddressOfController:6633 > > Then I added a patch port for each bridge based on this tutorial > <http://blog.scottlowe.org/2012/11/27/connecting-ovs-bridges-with-patch-ports/> > ovs-vsctl add-port mybridge1 patch2-1 > ovs-vsctl set interface patch2-1 type=patch > ovs-vsctl set interface patch2-1 options:peer=patch2-1 > > Then I tried to make the ping between the two VMs but it fails ! > Could you please tell me how to fix this problem.
It's my understanding that patch ports should only be used to connect OVS bridges running on the same system. Since your bridges are across two different VMs, using a patch port here won't work. -- Scott _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
