If I do that on the clients the all the clients are sending out
dhcpdiscover messages.But not getting any responses from

./pox.py misc.dhcpd:default running on vm-switch

Regards,
Karthik.


On 11 April 2013 13:33, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]> wrote:

> What happens if you run dhclient -v eth0 or whatever on the VMs?
> On Apr 10, 2013 6:30 PM, "Karthik Sharma" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I don't have a dchp server configured on my network.As explained above it
>> is 3 network segments intnet-1,intnet-2 and intnet-3 which are connected to
>> openvswitch.These three internal networks are created using Virtual Box.
>>
>> Then I have attached one end of each of these to vm-switch.
>>
>> sudo ovs-vsctl add-port lan0 eth1
>> sudo ovs-vsctl add-port lan0 eth2
>> sudo ovs-vsctl add-port lan0 eth3
>>
>> In this situation how does the POX dhcp server work?
>>
>> I did try runing
>>
>> ./pox.py log.level --DEBUG misc.dhcpd:default  on vm-switch
>>
>> and tried restarting vm-1 vm-2 and vm-3.
>>
>> But did not get any response.
>>
>> As mentioned I think for the dhcp server to work I think there should be
>> a common network among the 4 machines which is not true in the above case.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Karthik.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11 April 2013 13:01, Murphy McCauley <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> POX doesn't currently support IPv6.  (This is mostly because OpenFlow
>>> 1.0 only supports IPv4.  IPv6 is being added because Open vSwitch supports
>>> it through an extension and because we're planning to support OpenFlow 1.2.
>>>  The first version is almost but not quite complete; it is slated for carp.)
>>>
>>> So this is probably at least a major component of your problem.  Use
>>> IPv4.  You can either statically configure the addresses, or run dhclient
>>> or whatever on your VMs if your OpenFlow network is connected to a DHCP
>>> server.  If it's not, you can use POX's DHCP server.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> -- Murphy
>>>
>>> On Apr 10, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Karthik Sharma wrote:
>>>
>>> I have 4 virtual Machine (Ubuntu 12.04) running on a host that is also
>>> running Ubuntu 12.04
>>> The Virtual Machines are named as
>>>
>>>     vm-1
>>>     vm-2
>>>     vm-3
>>>     vm-switch
>>>
>>> Below are the network settings on switch-vm
>>>
>>>
>>>     Adapter 1:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, eth0)
>>>     Adapter 2:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Internal network, 'intnet-1')
>>>     Adapter 3:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Internal network, 'intnet-2')
>>>     Adapter 4:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Internal network, 'intnet-3')
>>>
>>> Network settings on vm-1
>>>
>>>     Adapter 1:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, eth0)
>>>     Adapter 2:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Internal network, 'intnet-1')
>>>
>>> Network settings on vm-2
>>>
>>>     Adapter 1:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, eth0)
>>>     Adapter 2:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Internal network, 'intnet-2')
>>>
>>>
>>> Network settings on vm
>>>
>>>     Adapter 1:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, eth0)
>>>     Adapter 2:
>>>     Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Internal network, 'intnet-3')
>>>
>>>
>>> I have installed ovs and pox controller on vm-swtich
>>>
>>>     sudo ovs-vsctl show
>>>     sudo ovs-vsctl add-br lan0
>>>     sudo ovs-vsctl add-port lan0 eth1
>>>     sudo ovs-vsctl add-port lan0 eth2
>>>     sudo ovs-vsctl add-port lan0 eth3
>>>     sudo ovs-vsctl set-controller lan0 tcp:127.0.0.1:6633
>>>
>>>     ./pox.py log.level --DEBUG forwarding.l2_learning
>>>
>>> On another terminal on the vm-switch,I run the following ping6 script.
>>>
>>> for i in {1..10}
>>> do
>>> echo "pinging vm-1 via eth1"
>>> ping6  -I eth1 -c 10 fe80::a00:27ff:fed1:9ced
>>> echo "pinging vm-2 via eth2"
>>> ping6  -I eth2 -c 10 fe80::a00:27ff:febe:3ae6
>>> echo "pinging vm-2 via eth3"
>>> ping6  -I eth3 -c 10 fe80::a00:27ff:fe92:3e72
>>> done
>>>
>>>
>>> where fe80::a00:27ff:fed1:9ced is the link local ipv6 address on (eth0)
>>> on vm-1
>>>       fe80::a00:27ff:febe:3ae6 is the link local ipv6 address on (eth0)
>>> on vm-2
>>>       fe80::a00:27ff:fe92:3e72 is the link local ipv6 address on (eth0)
>>> on vm-3
>>>
>>> The ping commands work successfully with 0% packet loss.However
>>>
>>>     ./pox.py log.level --DEBUG forwarding.l2_learning
>>>
>>> doesn't seem to show any output at all.
>>>
>>> Is this because I am pinging from switch-vm to vm-1 vm-2 and vm-3
>>>
>>> Instead if I try pinging from vm-1 to vm-2 etc.It is saying destination
>>> unreachable.
>>>
>>> Is this the problem that the appropriate flows are not installed in the
>>> POX controller?
>>> If yes is there an easy way to do that?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

Reply via email to