On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Daniel Dehennin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Jesse Gross <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>> It's difficult to read your diagram but isn't vnet16 (where DHCP
>> responses are still seen) after OVS?
>
> Sorry, I'm not sure to understand your question:
>
> - vnet16 is the interface of the DHCP server
>
> - isw is the name of the Open vSwitch
>
> - vnet18 is the interface of the DHCP client
>
> So, my packets are blocked between vnet16 and isw.
>
> I made another test:
>
> - assign to LXC eth1 the same MAC address than vnet16 one
>
> - assign random MAC addresses to eth1 and breth1 of the KVM hosting the
>   LXC
>
> In that situation, everything works fine between the client and the LXC
> guest, but then packets from the KVM hosting the LXC[1] never reach isw.
>
> It looks like Open vSwitch only forward packets with MAC addresses listed
> in "ovs-ofctl show isw".
>
> Is there a way to make it "learn" MAC addresses as they show up on
> ports, like any physical switch without MAC filtering.

That's what it does by default.  Possibly it has learned the MAC on
the wrong port.  You can show the MAC table with:
 ovs-appctl fdb/show <bridge_name>
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