Ah, It's the FDB in the NIC - iproute2 has a bridge command which works - thanks.
Mvh Kristoffer On 09/08/2013, at 23.36.37, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Kristoffer Egefelt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Network between VMs connected to openvswitch and VMs connected with SR-IOV >> interfaces (VFs) on the same host seems not to work, due to some special arp >> handling in the ixgbevf driver where arp traffic is not forwarded to the >> physical interface. >> If the NIC does not know about the ovs connected VMs MAC address, which it >> apparently can't because the VM is hiding behind a (openvswitch) bridge, the >> arp traffic seems to be black holed. >> >> I found this https://communities.intel.com/thread/43504 which suggests that >> the problem can be solved by manually adding the VMs mac address to the PF >> in the forwarding database. >> >> I can't find any way to try this with openvswitch - somebody know about a >> solution to this or have any ideas? > > Open vSwitch does not manage the FDB in SR-IOV NICs, so you'll have to > find a way to do it using the driver's tools. > X-CudaMail-Whitelist-To: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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