On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Priyanki Vashi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi There , > > I am new to openvswitch and also new to networking in general. I am in the > process of setting up a VPN tunnel with OVS + OpenVPN. > > OVS version, I am running is 2.0.0 and OpenVPN is 2.2.1. I have successfully > created certificate for server and client. Just to understand basic concept > I tried to setup a tunnel without bridging mode and it worked fine meaning > that I successfully able to ping VPN Client and VPN server. What does "setup a tunnel without bridging mode" mean? Open vSwitch has a concept of "tunnel" and so does OpenVPN. So you will have to clarify.
> > Now when I am trying to setup the tunnel in a bridged mode (using OVS > bridges), I am phasing problems. > In this configuration, I am able to successfully create TAP interfaces and > they are also added in my bridge but I still can't ping VPN server and > Client with these newly created TAP interfaces. Is the VPN client and VPN server in a VM? And OVS is on the hypervisor? if so, I would suggest to get pings working without the VPN component. > > After reading some of the already existing post on this topic, I understand > that OpenVswitch + OpenVPN could be configured successfully but I could not > get much configuration info from this post. > (http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2010-July/004135.html) > > Also, there is a problem that these newly created TAP interfaces are not > shown as a data path in the output of ovs-dbctl show but I am not sure what > could be the problem. > > I am not sure if my scripts (up and down), which creates and configures TAP > interfaces are missing something so I am sharing my up/down script as well > as Server.conf file so that someone, who might have done this successfully > can quickly have a look and help me. > > Thank you in advance but I am hoping to get some help on my problem. > > Best Regards, > Priyanki. > > Up script > #!/bin/bash > > > # Define Bridge Interfaces > BR=tipc-br > TAPDEV=tap11 > ifconfig $TAPDEV 0.0.0.0 promisc up > ovs-vsctl add-port $BR $TAPDEV -- set interface $TAPDEV type=internal > ifconfig $TAPDEV 192.168.169.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 > ifconfig $TAPDEV txqueuelen 5000 > ovs-vsctl show > > > > Down script > #!/bin/bash > > # Define Bridge Interfaces > BR=tipc-br > TAPDEV=tap11 > > /sbin/ifconfig $TAPDEV 0.0.0.0 down > ovs-vsctl del-port $BR $TAPDEV > ovs-vsctl show > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
