Linux bonds and OVS bridges don't necessarily mix well.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:25:58AM +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had a configuration like that in mind:
> 
> # ip link add bond0 type bond
> # ip link set em1 master bond0
> # ip link set em2 master bond0
> # ip link add link bond0 name mgmt type vlan id 100
> # ip link add link bond0 name ovs_tunnel type vlan id 200
> 
> # ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> # ovs-vsctl add-port bond0
> 
> # ip link |grep bond0
> 6: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc noqueue 
> master ovs-system state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 7: mgmt@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc noqueue state 
> UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> #
> 
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, at 18:51, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 09:58:49PM +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have tried the following configuration for the system-level network in 
> > > the lab:
> > > 
> > >                                            
> > >                               +--vlan10@bond0
> > > ens1--+                      |              
> > >        ---bond0 (ovs-system)--+--vlan20@bond0
> > > ens2--+                      |              
> > >                               +--vlan30@bond0
> > > 
> > > The idea is to plug bond0 into openvswitch so that I can add specific 
> > > VLANs to my virtual topology, but push some of those VLANs into system 
> > > without doing any specific configuration on the ovs side (for example, to 
> > > have access to the management interface even if vswitchd is down).
> > > 
> > > This seems to be working fine in my lab (there is access to the 
> > > management interface - vlan10 - even when bond0 has ovs-system as 
> > > master), but are there any drawbacks to such a configuration?
> > 
> > It's hard to guess how you're implementing this.  If you're doing it
> > with something like this:
> > 
> >     ovs-vsctl add-port br0 ens1
> >     ovs-vsctl add-port br0 ens2
> >     ovs-vsctl add-bond br0 bond0 ens1 ens2
> >     ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vlan1 tag=1 -- set interface vlan1 type=internal
> >     ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vlan2 tag=2 -- set interface vlan2 type=internal
> >     ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vlan3 tag=3 -- set interface vlan3 type=internal
> > 
> > then it ought to work fine.
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Krzysztof Klimonda
>   kklimo...@syntaxhighlighted.com
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