Hi, I think the reason I wasn't getting any traffic out of my public network from my instances was simply that I needed to configure this network as a 'flat' network because it goes out to a physical port, eth0, which should be openvswitch-bridged to br-ex.
So I added this line to ovs_quantum_plugin.ini: bridge_mappings = physnet1:br-ex And, above that I added network_vlan_ranges = physnet1 because I am using tenant_network_type gre. All of this seems to be picked up on reload of quantum-server: INFO [quantum.plugins.openvswitch.ovs_quantum_plugin] Network VLAN ranges: {'physnet1': []} INFO [quantum.plugins.openvswitch.ovs_quantum_plugin] Tunnel ID ranges: [(2, 1000)] But then when restarting quantum-plugin-openvswitch-agent, I get told that br-ex is not a bridge or a socket: INFO [quantum.plugins.openvswitch.agent.ovs_quantum_agent] Mapping physical network physnet1 to bridge br-ex ERROR [quantum.agent.linux.ovs_lib] Unable to execute ['ovs-ofctl', 'del-flows', 'br-ex']. Exception: Command: ['sudo', 'quantum-rootwrap', '/etc/quantum/rootwrap.conf', 'ovs-ofctl', 'del-flows', 'br-ex'] Exit code: 1 Stdout: '' Stderr: 'ovs-ofctl: br-ex is not a bridge or a socket\n' ERROR [quantum.agent.linux.ovs_lib] Unable to execute ['ovs-ofctl', 'add-flow', 'br-ex', 'hard_timeout=0,idle_timeout=0,priority=1,actions=normal']. Exception: Command: ['sudo', 'quantum-rootwrap', '/etc/quantum/rootwrap.conf', 'ovs-ofctl', 'add-flow', 'br-ex', 'hard_timeout=0,idle_timeout=0,priority=1,actions=normal'] Exit code: 1 Stdout: '' Stderr: 'ovs-ofctl: br-ex is not a bridge or a socket\n' 2013-08-17 01:32:17 ERROR [quantum.agent.linux.ovs_lib] Unable to execute ['ovs-ofctl', 'add-flow', 'br-ex', 'hard_timeout=0,idle_timeout=0,priority=2,in_port=[],actions=drop']. Exception: Command: ['sudo', 'quantum-rootwrap', '/etc/quantum/rootwrap.conf', 'ovs-ofctl', 'add-flow', 'br-ex', 'hard_timeout=0,idle_timeout=0,priority=2,in_port=[],actions=drop'] Exit code: 1 Stdout: '' But from the below output, it would appear that br-ex in fact is a bridge: # ovs-vsctl show 9ccefe5a-4669-4d7b-ba97-c2c63df6d05f Bridge br-tun Port patch-int Interface patch-int type: patch options: {peer=patch-tun} Port "gre-2" Interface "gre-2" type: gre options: {in_key=flow, out_key=flow, remote_ip="172.31.2X.1X"} Port br-tun Interface br-tun type: internal Bridge br-ex Port "eth0" Interface "eth0" Port br-ex Interface br-ex type: internal Port phy-br-ex Interface phy-br-ex Bridge br-int Port int-br-ex Interface int-br-ex Port br-int Interface br-int type: internal Port "tapeeb281c5-e3" tag: 1 Interface "tapeeb281c5-e3" Port patch-tun Interface patch-tun type: patch options: {peer=patch-int} ovs_version: "1.4.0+build0" But ovs-ofctl disagrees about br-ex (but not the others) # ovs-ofctl show br-ex ovs-ofctl: br-ex is not a bridge or a socket # ovs-ofctl show br-tun OFPT_FEATURES_REPLY (xid=0x1): ver:0x1, dpid:000076495f3d0443 n_tables:255, n_buffers:256 features: capabilities:0xc7, actions:0xfff 1(patch-int): addr:2e:66:5f:7a:69:e2 config: 0 state: 0 2(gre-2): addr:1a:56:5c:3a:bd:b7 config: 0 state: 0 LOCAL(br-tun): addr:76:49:5f:3d:04:43 config: PORT_DOWN state: LINK_DOWN OFPT_GET_CONFIG_REPLY (xid=0x3): frags=normal miss_send_len=0 # ovs-ofctl show br-int OFPT_FEATURES_REPLY (xid=0x1): ver:0x1, dpid:0000b6f1d0a78d49 n_tables:255, n_buffers:256 features: capabilities:0xc7, actions:0xfff 12(int-br-ex): addr:9a:08:6e:15:1b:58 config: 0 state: 0 current: 10GB-FD COPPER 13(patch-tun): addr:be:fc:aa:4c:31:70 config: 0 state: 0 LOCAL(br-int): addr:b6:f1:d0:a7:8d:49 config: PORT_DOWN state: LINK_DOWN OFPT_GET_CONFIG_REPLY (xid=0x3): frags=normal miss_send_len=0 Does anyone have any idea why ovs-vsctl and ovs-ofctl would disagree about the bridginess br-ex ? Also, am I on the right track trying to configure a flat network, whilst using gre for tenant (internal) networks? Right now we only have 10 ip addresses available for this project, all drawn from the one publicly routable /24. Many thanks for reading all of this! Andrew. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack