On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Derek Cormier <derek.corm...@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote: > On 10/18/2010 09:36 AM, Justin Pettit wrote: >> >> On Oct 17, 2010, at 5:28 PM, Derek Cormier wrote: >> >> >>> >>> When you add ports to a virtual bridge, should you still be able to ping >>> them? For some reason, I cannot ping the interface on the switch that a host >>> connects to. Yet, I can ping another host. >>> >> >> Do you mean, for example, if you add eth0 to br0, you can't ping the >> address assigned to eth0? If so, then, no, you cannot ping the addresses of >> attached devices. You can assign the IP address to br0, though, and that >> should work. >> >> --Justin >> >> > > Yep, that's exactly what I meant. I tried giving my bridge, vbr0 an IP > address using: > > ifconfig vbr0 192.168.100.1, > > But I am unable to ping it. In order to get ping working before, when I was > pinging from host to host, I had to set up the default entry on each host to > be their outgoing interface, because it wouldn't work with the routers > incoming interface. Should the default entry for the hosts be vbr0's new IP > address?
Yes, all configuration should use the bridge interface's IP/MAC address. The underlying Ethernet adapters become owned by the switch and it will take all traffic before it hits the IP stack. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
