sure, I will try that 

Thank you very much 

-- 
Nan


On Friday, 18 October, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Alex Wang wrote:

> Yes, you can try ping from the two vms.  and the ping should work with this 
> setup,
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Nan <codingcat...@gmail.com 
> (mailto:codingcat...@gmail.com)> wrote:
> > Ah, thanks, Alex 
> > 
> > if I want the VMs on host 1 and host 2 to be able to communicate with each 
> > other, 
> > 
> > I still need the tunnel? 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Nan
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday, 18 October, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Alex Wang wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, as the FAQ says,
> > > 
> > > """
> > > A physical Ethernet device that is part of an Open vSwitch bridge should 
> > > not have an IP address.  If one does, then that IP address will not be 
> > > fully functional.
> > > 
> > > """
> > > 
> > > The eth1 on br0 still has address "192.168.2.1". 
> > > 
> > > If you still want eth0 on br0 and eth1 having address "192.168.2.1", one 
> > > feasible configuration is to use tunnel. E.g. 
> > > 
> > > On host1:
> > > ovs-vsctl del-port eth1
> > > ovs-vsctl add-port tunnel_to_host2 -- set interface tunnel_to_host2 
> > > type=gre options:remote_ip=192.168.2.2 
> > > 
> > > On host2:
> > > ovs-vsctl del-port eth1
> > > ovs-vsctl add-port tunnel_to_host1 -- set interface tunnel_to_host1 
> > > type=gre options:remote_ip=192.168.2.1 
> > > 
> > > This is actually a common solution for directing traffic to corresponding 
> > > physical interface. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, 
> > 
> 

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