Do you want me to give one of the Ethernet interfaces an IP address= the bridge IP, without assigning this interface to the bridge.
Best regards, Amer م، كتب Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com>: Well, like you said, without flows, ping works. So pass through the > ICMP traffic to the gateway to the IP stack (presumably the bridge's > local port) and let it do the ICMP responses. > >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 06:40:10PM +0300, Amer wrote: >> Thank you Ben >> The problem is the host need to have a gateway, however, if he can't ping >> the gateway, nothing will be forwarded. >> However, how can I pass the ICMP packets to the IP stack? >> >> Best regards, >> Amer >> >> : >> >>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 02:29:07PM +0300, Amer wrote: >>>> I have 4 VMs, 2 bridges and each one has a host. >>>> My question is: >>>> I need to configure a default gateway for the hosts, however when I added >>>> flow rules to the bridges, suddenly, I can't ping them from the hosts. I >>>> know this is due to the rules. >>>> When the host can't ping the bridge, how I configure it to be the gateway. >>>> I need to add a flow-rule to make the bridge respond to ping requests? >>>> What is the rule to do so? >>> >>> I don't think you can do that through flows. It is probably better to >>> configure the flows so that anything that needs an ICMP response is >>> passed through to the IP stack. >
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