Re: [ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-06-06 Thread Ahmed Bessifi
Hi, in fact I can finally attach my physical interface to the bridge without losing the connection. And for the loops and ARP issues when I activated the STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) in each switch there is not ARP storm that loops through my vswitchs and I can ping my VMs. Although, the ping pass

Re: [ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-06-06 Thread Ahmed Bessifi
Hi, Thanks very much for your timely reply. In fact I have another question. It seems when I start searching in the old mails in this ML, that some of your community suggest the use of two bridges. The first one witch connects the VMs (isolated bridge) and the second in witch we attach the physica

Re: [ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-06-04 Thread Ahmed Bessifi
In this page, it is mentioned that open vSwitch supports thousands of GRE tunnels : === In a similar vein, Open vSwitch supports a GRE implementation that can handle thousands of simultaneous GR

[ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-06-04 Thread Ahmed Bessifi
Hi, I am working in a cluster and I used OVS (1.10.0) to interconnect 10 physical nodes. In each node a did the folowing steps : * I create an ovs bridge. * I configure 9 gre tunnel for the rest of node. * I create my 10 containers and attatch them to the ovs bridge. The problem, is I cannot

Re: [ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-05-31 Thread ananthan
Thanks Justin,it worked,but doesn't it create mesh topology,is there any way we can do it in a better way like star topology or similar.So that i can easily add 50+ hosts with out creating 49 endpoints. once again thank for your help. ananthan On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Justin Pettit wrote

Re: [ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-05-30 Thread Justin Pettit
ovs-vsctl doesn't sanity-check your input; it's just a front-end for the database. You should create a separate port for each tunnel endpoint. --Justin On May 30, 2013, at 5:46 AM, ananthan wrote: > Hi, > Using OVS 1.4.2 on xenserver 6.1 across 2 hosts. > > I have GRE tunnel between

[ovs-discuss] GRE tunnel to multiple host

2013-05-30 Thread ananthan
Hi, Using OVS 1.4.2 on xenserver 6.1 across 2 hosts. I have GRE tunnel between 2 hosts for carrying private ip between vms connected to an isolated bridge and is working fine. but how can i extend it to 3 hosts and more. tried "type=gre options:remote_ip=*IP1*,*IP2*" It looks like it ha