Re: [ovs-discuss] New to Open vSwitch, want to try it with Xen

2011-04-01 Thread Joseph Glanville
Hi Jason I recently integrated Open vSwitch with Xen. There are 2 possible routes, the choice boils down to what level of customisation you need. The first is to load the bridge compatiblity module as part of OVS and the Xen scripts will work out of the box. Ideal for testing and simple deployme

[ovs-discuss] New to Open vSwitch, want to try it with Xen

2011-04-01 Thread Jason Long
Hi, I want to try out open vswitch with xen. I followed the instructions in INSTALL.Linux. Everything went good. The module is loaded, ovsdb-server is running, ovs-switchd is running, and I setup a bridge named br0 to include physical port eth1. Now what is the best way to make xen use open vswit

Re: [ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:15:00PM -0500, Hugo wrote: > I am wondering > 1. if the statically assigning the IP address, can this IP address be an > internal IP address (such as any 192.168.1.100) or a external IP address > that should be requested from ISP? > 2. if DHCP the ip address, does Open vS

Re: [ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Hugo
Thanks for the quick reply. I am wondering 1. if the statically assigning the IP address, can this IP address be an internal IP address (such as any 192.168.1.100) or a external IP address that should be requested from ISP? 2. if DHCP the ip address, does Open vSwitch will be performed as the DHCP

Re: [ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:01:19PM -0500, Hugo wrote: > And I start up the VM in VitualBox. But the result is that VM could not > access the internet. There is no ip address assigned to eth0 within the VM > either. So I am still confused about how to connect the VM to the internet > in this way. Is

[ovs-discuss] Still some question for a beginner on working VBox with Open vSwitch

2011-04-01 Thread Hugo
Hi, Everyone, As suggested, I repeated the experiment with some modification. FYI, I describe it here. I install a VM in a VirtualBox. I use the command “VBoxTunctl” from VirtualBox to set up a tap device. (So by typing ifconfig -a, you will see a device named "tap0".) Instead of NAT, I choose the

Re: [ovs-discuss] Monitoring of openVswitch

2011-04-01 Thread Justin Pettit
On Apr 1, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Benoit ML wrote: > Last but not least : Is there any roadmap ? Any plan to have a new stable > release (for rhel6) ? We don't have a roadmap, but there are a few things we'll be working on in the relatively near-term: - Cleanups related to upstreaming the k

Re: [ovs-discuss] Monitoring of openVswitch

2011-04-01 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:37:28PM +0200, Benoit ML wrote: > * With ovs-dpctl dump-flows : >- Total >- Dropped >- Miss I'm not sure that dump-flows output is really useful for monitoring. It's too much detail. I don't know how you would use the results. > * Wi

[ovs-discuss] Monitoring of openVswitch

2011-04-01 Thread Benoit ML
Hi, I'd like to know what is the valuable parameters to monitor (for my zabbix) ? For now, I check : * With ovs-dpctl dump-flows : - Total - Dropped - Miss * With ovs-dpctl show : - flows (max and current) - ports (max and current) -