On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 09:24:49PM -0500, Vasu S wrote: > I'm trying to connect two OVS bridges via patch ports, however, as soon as > I add the ports as type=patch, they disappear from the ifconfig and I'm > unable to check any traffic hits on either of the patch interfaces.
Patch ports aren't real interfaces and will not appear in ifconfig. > Of course, I'm not able to get the ping going with the patched > interfaces Only one OVS amongst the two is connected to the outside > network via GRE tunnel. > > Topology roughly looks like as the attached document. > > Problem: Unable to ping VM1 from VM2 > Expected route: VM2->ovsbr-ext->GRE Tunnel->ovsbr1->patchlink->ovsbr2->VM1. > > Patch config on the bridges ovsbr1 and ovsbr2 are as follows: I suggest tracing the path of a packet. The FAQ has some suggestions for how to do this. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list disc...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss