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How to drop arp requests trying to resolve a particular IP address at a logical switch port?

I am using l2gateway port to attach a physical L2 segment to a logical network. But both the logical network and the physical segment has one common IP, say 10.0.0.1. I want to prevent the traffic ...
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When installing neutron ovn from openstack-ansible, ovs will be installed automatically if install_method is set to distro

We are trying to install openstack through openstack-ansible and configure neutron with ovn. The installation version was yoga/zed, and ovn was configured by referring to the link below. yoga : https:/...
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Isolate traffic between vswitches but allow l2 traffic from external network

I've two OVS bridges which they are connected to the 3rd v-switch using patch(es). Bridge br1 Port br1 Interface br1 type: internal Port br1-ext ...
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Connecting 2 Virtualbox VMs to Open vSwitch running on another Virtualbox VM

I have 3 Ubuntu 22.04 VMs created using Virtualbox. My host machine is Windows 10. One of them is running 5G core emulator, and the other one is running UEransim. I was able to connect UE to 5G ...
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Connecting different interfaces with different IP ranges to Open vSwith OVS

I have a setup with 4 VMs. There are two servers: VM1, VM2, one router: VM3, and one client: VM4. VM3 is connected directly to all other VMs and routes traffic between them. VM3 has 3 different ...
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Nothing but DHCP works after testing SR-IOV on Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx

I was following the Proxmox guide for enabling PCIe passthrough and SR-IOV for my NIC, since I am running Vyos in a VM as a router. However, after undoing all the changes the NIC is not working ...
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OVS switch and Tap interface- Connecting two vm using tap interface-ubuntu

I want to connect 2 VM together using tap interface on Ubuntu. VM2 will connect to VM1 by a tap interface on VM1. I will use OVS switch to forward traffic from VM1 to VM2. Scenario: Router from ISP ...
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Ingress traffic shaping with OVS port

I have a ovs topology like this: h1 | | [SW 1] / \ / \ [SW 2] [SW 3] \ / \ / [SW 4] | | h2 Traffic is sent ...
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Traffic shaping for multipath routing in OVS

I'm working with OVS and tried multipath routing using group tables like in this link: https://github.com/PSIB0T/Multipath-Routing. It splits traffic to buckets with output is different ports. At ...
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No layer 2 traffic in an Open vSwitch bridge

I see no traffic in layer 2 and above in an OVS bridge, but I do see layer 1 traffic. I have the following setup: I have created a Linux VirtualBox VM with three adapters: NAT with port forwarding the ...
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OpenDayLight SDN: Can't get openflow table info via OpenDayLight RESTCONF

I'm trying to connect several openflow OVS instances to OpenDayLight SDN. My switches succesfully attached and I can get the nodes informations via the following RESTCONF request: /rests/data/...
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Weave net empty flows for OpenvSwitch

I have 2 containers c1/c2 on 2 separate hosts and I am running Weave Net docker plugin with multicast and fastdp enabled. Both containers can communicate fine on the underlay network both in unicast ...
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Open VSwitch - Connect two virtual networks through two physical networks

I managed to setup the following network configuration : HOST1 and HOST2 are two physical machines running Debian OS. They have both two network cards (eth0 and eth1), each of them connected to two ...
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KVM guest low network speed

I have a KVM guest VM running RHEL 8.7 (12vCPU, 24GB RAM) and a hypervisor with 10Gb NICs. I'm getting weird results when using iperf3 on my guest machine as a client and a TrueNAS server as a server. ...
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GTP-U configuration in OVS

I'm trying to configure a virtual GTP-U interface in OVS, however when I try the below command (from https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/faq/configuration/): Q: Does Open vSwitch support GTP-U? A: ...
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simple openvswitch forward demo not work

What are the details of your problem? Hi, that is my first time try ovs. i am using Arch Linux, and installed openvswitch. use sudo ip link add v1 type dummy && sudo ip addr add 10.0.0.1/24 ...
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Equivalent to TYPE=“OVSPort” DEVICETYPE=“ovs” OVS_BRIDGE=br-ex in Ubuntu 14.04?

Is there an equivalent to TYPE="OVSPort" DEVICETYPE="ovs" OVS_BRIDGE=br-ex in Ubuntu 14.04? The system is OpenStack Icehouse with 3 nodes (controller, network, compute1) each on a VirtualBox Ubuntu ...
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Tracing a packet across a DNAT boundary and into OpenVSwitch

I am trying to figure out where a connection is getting dropped in a complex SDN environment that involves a combination of nftables rules and an OpenVSwitch switch with complex flow rules. I have a ...
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RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument while specifying packet loss by tc command

I am trying to specify packet loss by tc command on interface (port) 1 of switch part of network I have created using mininet : sudo tc qdisc change dev s1-eth1 root netem loss 0.1% but gettring ...
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LXC container network with OVS not forwarding ARP correctly

Using lxc containers, I want to simulate network components individually. For this, I am trying to embed OVS in an lxc container. Initially, I started with the following setup, which works properly ...
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What flow rules to add to the table for L2 Forwarding in open vSwitch?

I am performing an experiment on 2 Xeon based servers. Both the servers have two dual port NIC, total 4 NICs. OVS is running on one server and DPDK pktgen on the other server. I tried to add flow ...
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KVM Networking - assign IP to each VM by outside DHCP

I am new to KVM and am having a problem with setting up the networking. I want each VM to get its IPs assigned by the network's DHCP, not the internal DHCP that the KVM keeps trying to set up. In ...
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Blocking mac spoofing on libvirt guests using openflow

I have a couple of kvm vms running with libvirt and they are using openvswitch bridges. I need a mechanism to prevent mac spoofing on a guest. I tried libvirt filters no-mac-spoofing and clean-traffic ...
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OpenVSwitch between namespaces

I'm trying to configure a bridge between two TAP interfaces each created inside their own network namespace, on Linux. I'm using OpenVSwitch as software bridge. These are the steps that I believe ...
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What is the proper way to setup Open vSwitch with NetworkManager in CentOS 8?

How it was before in good old times of network-scripts: I've describing bridge and port in files: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-port0 than restart ...
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OVN Cluster Health Command

Is there any command-line tool for the OVN Cluster Health check? Or each of its components? and a command or commands which gives stats about the cluster. For example, without a functional test, I ...
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How i can assign /32 ip address to openstack nova instance without float ip?

I'm developing a custom panel for my openstack home lab via rest api. I've investigated Hetzner cloud ip (v4) addressing mechanism and i found it is like this: It is assigning /32 valid ip v4 address ...
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Why does my ethernet interface not get added to my openvswitch bridge on startup, with debian 10.5?

I am setting up a kvm/qemu/libvirt host (debian buster 10.5) with two ethernet interfaces: eno1 for the host traffic and eno2 for the VM traffic. eno2 is connected to a trunk switch port carrying the ...
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Tunnel packets get filtered or stripped off, also certain packets like BGP

I was trying to figure this out for quite some while now. So I am trying my luck here now... I have some VMs that should communicate with non VMs. There are 2 use cases. The first are BareMetal ...
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GRE tunneling using Open vSwitch

I am trying to implement tunneling as described here with the following setup (without any success): ho1 is a host only interface. I want to connect Nested Guest 11 and Nested Guest 21. I have read ...
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Network Discovery wont work over OpenVswitch VXLANs tunnels

I have working Openvswitch VXLANs, Recently i noticed Network Discovery wont work over VXLAN tunnels across different Hypervisors. Virtual machines can use all file sharing etc if accessed through IP ...
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2x Node OpenStack with additional Synology

Dave here I'm building a concept for a customer and they want to build a dev environment for their small business network. This is for pen testing, and as close as they can virtualized version of ...
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kernel BUG at ./include/linux/skbuff.h:4470 leads Server to Hang

Server with linux version 5.5.0-050500-generic and OS version Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I have two interface which are connected to ovs bridge. As per normal flow packets are redirected to one interfcae to ...
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open vswitch and open virtual network in openstack

I have a local lab which does not have a physical switch and consists of 3 servers which are connected to each other Nics. Now I want to implement vlans, want to know is it possible to setup vlans ...
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Open vSwitch and port translation

we've got a very specific requirement which I want to solve with Open vSwitch. It already works somehow - can you show me what I'm missing here? Requirement: a Docker container connected to a mac-vlan ...
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OpenvSwitch PLVAN support

I have looked up the supported feature of OpenvSwitch on the official website. However, I couldn't find any support for PVLAN. I wonder if OVS supports Private VLAN (PVLAN) which is composed of ...
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how to bring up network-interfaces and bridges in specific order at boot time

Currently, my setup is having many nodes, each having RHEL 7 installed, with each node having only one single interface. I am using ovs-bridge and a vlan-tagged interface within the host. I use vlan-...
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OVS Bridge Inbound broadcast packets dropped when rstp enabled

I have set up the network through OVS. However, communication with other PCs is not working normally. Checking the reason, inbound broadcast packets are dropped. ovs-vsctl show Bridge "vmbr1&...
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Multiple private networks across multiple hosts (KVM, OpenVSwitch)

I had asked this question on SuperUser, looks like it wasn't the correct forum. Hopefully ServerFault is the correct one. I am working on a project, running KVM virtualization on 4 different host with ...
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In virtual networking, how does a Virtual Switch differ from a linux kernel bridge?

I have seen that in virtual networking, guest VMs/containers can be connected with host and internet either by using kernel bridges(linux) or Virtual Switches. Example - Bridges docker uses linux ...
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How to configure VLANs along with Libvirt/KVM/QEMU and OVS?

I am using Debian 9 machine as a router with two interfaces: eth0 for WAN eth1 for LAN The eth1 has subinterfaces for multiple VLANs (eth1.10; eth1.20; eth1.30) and has trunk connection to managed ...
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Why can't we ping the gateway on our Open-vSwitch network configuration on Proxmox 6.1-3?

We are trying to get open vswitch working on 10 hosts running Proxmox 6.1-3. We think we have a configuration that should work, but it doesn't and we can't ping the gateway. These are hosts with 4 ...
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Setting up DHCP with OVN

I'm trying to set up an environment similar to the one described here in which OVN will provide DHCP service to logical networks. I have a logical switch named `net0 with two ports: [root@ovn0 ~]# ...
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libvirt & openvswitch VLAN tagging on the fly

I'm working on a project using libvirt with qemu and openvswitch on Debian 10. I would like to be able to modify the configuration of a network card of a domain in bash with the update-device command ...
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oVirt - Running VMs into a Subnet

I am trying to run VMs (and Pools) into a NAT. To reach this target I have: created a new Network in the Cluster; checked "Create on external provider" check box; selected ovirt-provider-ovn; entered ...
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Running dnsmasq in docker container on Debian - check_dhcp ignores dnsmasq

I'm testing configuration for my dnsmasq DHCP on my Virtualbox Debian machine. On production I want dnsmasq to provide static IP addresses to guest systems running via qemu + libvirt + openvswitch ( ...
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libvirt: create a bridged network using openvswitch with dhcp enabled

I am trying to use libvirt + dsnmasq + openvswitch to create a bridged network with dhcp enabled. I created a libvirt network with the following XML: <network connections='1'> <name>ovs-...
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connect Open vSwitch switch to real network : iptables masquerade

I'm using Open vSwitch to create a switched network between virtualBox guest machines, and i want that the host OS (Ubuntu 12.04) join this network and to configure it as the gateway of this virtual ...
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How to isolate traffic between VMs within openvswitch?

I've trying to achieve traffic isolation between VMs inside openvswitch with using VLANs. But I've faced with issue that when I've set VLAN tag on VM's port VM can't access external physical network. ...
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MTU on Open vSwitch Bridge/Port

How to set MTU value for an Open vSwitch bridge from command line? I have tried man pages, I failed. Thank you.