Open vSwitch just not working!

[tomstephens89]

Hi guys,

I am having trouble getting Open vSwitch working. I want to use it since the final environment consists of many VLANS which are subject to change, so Open vSwitch would make this much easier.

I have a proxmox installation on a small test network. At first I had the box working fine using a bond of eth0+1 via the standard linux networking model. So I tried breaking down that and using open vswitch instead. I read the proxmox guide, even copied their example confg and changed it, but I just cannot get it to work.

So for testings sake, I have gone back to a single port trunk on the cisco switch and am just trying to get Open vSwitch working with eth0 as my physical port, a single bridge and an internal port for host connectivity.

Here is my /etc/network/interfaces config, can anyone point out what I am doing wrong?

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto vmbr0
allow-ovs vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet manual
ovs_type OVSBridge
ovs_ports eth0 vlan10

allow-vmbr0 vlan10
iface vlan10 inet static
ovs_type OVSIntPort
ovs_bridge vmbr0
ovs_options tag=10
ovs_extra set interface ${IFACE} external-ids:iface-id=$(hostname -s)-${IFACE}-vif
address 172.16.1.199
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 172.16.1.254

 

[tomstephens89]

I have just tried via the gui as well (which I find strange since obviously the ports need to be in use by the linux networking stack for you to get to the GUI). I then deleted out the linux bridge and created an OVS bridge then OVSIntPort. Rebooted to commit the changes and its broken again. No network connectivity. My linux bridge entries were still in /etc/network/interfaces as well? So I deleted them and restarted, but still nothing. Just network unreachable.

Is open vSwich broken in Proxmox? Or is the implementation of it in proxmox just terrible? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

[dietmar]

Is open vSwich broken in Proxmox? Or is the implementation of it in proxmox just terrible? Or am I doing something wrong?

You probably use the wrong packages. What openvswitch version do you use?

 

[tomstephens89]

You probably use the wrong packages. What openvswitch version do you use?

I am using the openvswitch-switch package as per your instructions here:

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Open_vSwitch

apt-get install openvswitch-switch

 

[dietmar]

What is tghe output of

# dpkg -l openvswitch-switch

 

[tomstephens89]

What is tghe output of

# dpkg -l openvswitch-switch

Fail to read archive "openvswitch-switch" no such file or directory.

 

[dietmar]

try again (use option '-l', not '-i')

 

[tomstephens89]

try again (use option '-l', not '-i')

Similar thing.


EDIT!

Didn't see that was an L. See screenshot titles 'dpkg output'

 

[dietmar]

You use the wrong version (from debian repository). We provide newer and improved packages.

 

[tomstephens89]

You use the wrong version (from debian repository). We provide newer and improved packages.

Where can I find your versions and what versions are they?

 

[dietmar]

Where can I find your versions and what versions are they?

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_repositories

 

[cwathan]

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Package_repositories

dietmar,

Is OVS working with both OVZ and KVM at this stage?

 

[dietmar]

Is OVS working with both OVZ and KVM at this stage?

Only with KVM.

 

[MasonAdmin]

i installed proxmox-ve: 4.0-16 (running kernel: 4.2.2-1-pve) and have same problem , # dpkg -l openvswitch-switch output is :
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-===============================================================
ii openvswitch-switch 2.3.2-1 amd64 Open vSwitch switch implementations

and /etc/network/interfaces is:

# network interface settings; autogenerated
# Please do NOT modify this file directly, unless you know what
# you're doing.
#
# If you want to manage part of the network configuration manually,
# please utilize the 'source' or 'source-directory' directives to do
# so.
# PVE will preserve these directives, but will NOT its network
# configuration from sourced files, so do not attempt to move any of
# the PVE managed interfaces into external files!


auto lo
iface lo inet loopback


iface eth0 inet manual


allow-vmbr1 eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
ovs_type OVSPort
ovs_bridge vmbr1


allow-vmbr2 eth2
iface eth2 inet manual
ovs_type OVSPort
ovs_bridge vmbr2


allow-vmbr3 eth3
iface eth3 inet manual
ovs_type OVSPort
ovs_bridge vmbr3


auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
address 172.16.0.170
netmask 255.255.254.0
gateway 172.16.0.2
bridge_ports eth0
bridge_stp off
bridge_fd 0

auto vmbr1
iface vmbr1 inet manual
ovs_type OVSBridge
ovs_ports eth1


auto vmbr2
iface vmbr2 inet manual
ovs_type OVSBridge
ovs_ports eth2


auto vmbr3
iface vmbr3 inet manual
ovs_type OVSBridge
ovs_ports eth3


auto vmbr99
iface vmbr99 inet manual
ovs_type OVSBridge

 

[wirelessrouter]

I know,you use the wrong version (from debian repository). We provide newer and improved packages.