On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 04:07:08PM -0800, Chengyuan Li wrote: > We created a ovs bridge br0 in a VM launched by openstack, and add eth0 as > its port, assign the IP address to br0 port instead of eth0. But the br0 is > not reachable from external, before bridge is created, eth0 is working well > in the VM. > > The reason is that br0 doesn't get the same mac address as eth0. > eth0 mac address in openstack VM starts with "fa" which U/L bit is set, but > openvswitch doesn't select any Local address for bridge port, it causes ovs > bridge doesn't work in the VM. > > One question is that why openvswitch limits Local address to be > used?
Local addresses are usually randomly generated. OVS tries to get a permanent MAC address that isn't going to be so volatile. > Secnond, > Is there any solution to use ovs bridge in the VM if I don't want manually > change br0's mac address? You can write a script. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
