[PVE-User] Openvswicth conflict with network manager on host boot [was Multiple bridge on single physical interface]

[Jean-mathieu CHANTREIN]

Hello.


it is necessary to use the OVS packages of the testing version because they are compatible with systemd, which is not the case of the packages of the stable version.

----- Mail original -----
> De: "Jean-Mathieu Chantrein" <jean-mathieu.chantrein at univ-angers.fr>
> À: "pve-user" <pve-user at pve.proxmox.com>
> Envoyé: Lundi 25 Septembre 2017 12:41:21
> Objet: Re: [PVE-User] Openvswicth conflict with network manager on host boot [was Multiple bridge on single physical
> interface]

> Hello.
> 
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Yannis Milios" <yannis.milios at gmail.com>
>> À: "pve-user" <pve-user at pve.proxmox.com>
>> Envoyé: Jeudi 21 Septembre 2017 12:24:48
>> Objet: Re: [PVE-User] Multiple bridge on single physical interface
> 
>>>
>>> VM in subnetwork1(resp.2) on host1 must be communicate with VM in
>>> subnetwork1(resp.2) on host2 via just one single interface and my host must
>>> be not reacheable by subnetwork.
>>>
>>> How I can make this ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Isolation at layer 2 can be achieved either by using 2 separate physical
>> network cards or by utilising VLANs.
>> I have done something similar by using openvswitch on pve. You can have a
>> look if you want:
>> 
>> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Open_vSwitch
> 
> Thanks for you reply.
> 
> I was a little afraid to put my hands in openvswitch... I have tried and it's
> totally answer to my problematic. However, I think that there is a conflict
> between network-manager and openvswitch at the boot of host: Network manager
> fails with a timeout (5 minutes) to active interfaces and virtual bridges.
> 
> Once logged on host, I have to make this to active all interfaces:
> systemctl start networking.service # No time out anymore..., active all
> "regular" interface and "classic" bridge linux
> systemctl stop networking.service
> systemctl start networking.service # No time out again, active all interfaces!
> 
> I have install net-tools package (apparently ifconfig is need by OVS...) and I
> have enable openvswitch-switch.service with systemctl:
> systemctl enable openvswitch-switch.service
> 
> Is anyone ever encountering that?
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Jean-Mathieu