On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Chris Burton <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What is the process or dependencies by which OVN determines a logical
> routers interface(s) to be in a "ACTIVE" or "DOWN" state and notify Neutron
> of that status upstream?  I read https://docs.openstack.org/net
> working-ovn/ocata/design/ovn_worker.html document, but it seems to refer
> to virtual machines that are created/destroyed and I am unsure if the same
> applies to logical routers.  I have seen now on several occasions where OVN
> will report a network port as down for no reason then up then back down
> similar to a traditional network link flap, but ultimately the port remains
> in a down state (example below) and can find now way to bring the port
> online.
>

I don't think ovn-northd presently sets the status to active for logical
router interfaces (i.e logical switch ports of type router).

Do you think it should set to active ? If its a major issue, I think it can
be addressed.

Thanks
Numan



> In troubleshooting this issue I can find/see no obvious errors in the logs
> for OVS, OVN, or Neutron, and this does not occur with instance ports, all
> of the patch ports on the compute node appear to be in place, and the
> integration bridge (br-int) is up and running (two instances on the same
> subnet are able to communicate).  This is on Ocata release, CentOS 7,
> OVS/OVN 2.6.1 from package not source.
>
> cat /var/log/neutron/server.log | grep "networking_ovn.ml2.mech_driver" |
> awk '{ print $1=$2=""; print $0}'
> 5393 INFO networking_ovn.ml2.mech_driver 
> [req-d4aa53c5-b78e-4360-9c9e-194f76cdb15c
> - - - - -] Starting OVNMechanismDriver
> 5416 INFO networking_ovn.ml2.mech_driver [-] OVN reports status up for
> port: 90b16a19-11d9-4844-8fbe-2340367f18d5
> 5416 INFO networking_ovn.ml2.mech_driver 
> [req-347dbab3-4326-4a0d-b77c-eccc5532bee1
> - - - - -] OVN reports status down for port: 90b16a19-11d9-4844-8fbe-234036
> 7f18d5
> 5416 INFO networking_ovn.ml2.mech_driver 
> [req-347dbab3-4326-4a0d-b77c-eccc5532bee1
> - - - - -] OVN reports status up for port: 90b16a19-11d9-4844-8fbe-234036
> 7f18d5
> 5416 INFO networking_ovn.ml2.mech_driver 
> [req-347dbab3-4326-4a0d-b77c-eccc5532bee1
> - - - - -] OVN reports status down for port: 90b16a19-11d9-4844-8fbe-234036
> 7f18d55
>
> openstack port list
> +--------------------------------------+------+-------------
> ------+-----------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+--------+
> | ID                                   | Name | MAC Address       | Fixed
> IP Addresses                                                         |
> Status |
> +--------------------------------------+------+-------------
> ------+-----------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+--------+
> | 90b16a19-11d9-4844-8fbe-2340367f18d5 |      | fa:16:3e:b6:bd:29 |
> ip_address='172.18.0.1', subnet_id='8bfc9808-ba56-49ce-b308-ed6d7f1c6701'
> | DOWN   |
> +--------------------------------------+------+-------------
> ------+-----------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------+--------+
>
> openstack router list
> +--------------------------------------+-------------------+
> --------+-------+-------------+-------+----------------------------------+
> | ID                                   | Name              | Status |
> State | Distributed | HA    | Project                          |
> +--------------------------------------+-------------------+
> --------+-------+-------------+-------+----------------------------------+
> | e2b7766b-2121-4874-babe-080f6ef8ad84 | router-internal-1 | ACTIVE | UP
>   | False       | False | 6cde3f9359c84acdb6ae916d438045bf |
> +--------------------------------------+-------------------+
> --------+-------+-------------+-------+----------------------------------+
>
> Cheers,
>
> -C
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