[PVE-User] OVS Internal ports all in state unknown

[Brian Sidebotham]

Hi Guys,

We are using Openvswitch networking and we have a physical 1G management
network and two 10G physical links bonded. The physical interfaces show a
state of UP when doing "ip a".

However for the OVS bond, bridges and internal ports we get a state of"
UNKNOWN". Is this expected?

Everything else is essentially working OK - The GUI marks the bond, bridge
and internal ports as active and traffic is working as expected, but I
don't know why the state of these is not UP?

An example of an internal port OVS Configuration in /etc/network/interfaces
(as setup by the GUI):

allow-vmbr1 vlan233
iface vlan233 inet static
address  10.1.33.24
netmask  255.255.255.0
ovs_type OVSIntPort
ovs_bridge vmbr1
ovs_options tag=233

and ip a output:

14: vlan233: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state
*UNKNOWN* group default qlen 1000
    link/ether e2:53:9f:28:cb:2b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.1.33.24/24 brd 10.1.33.255 scope global vlan233
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::e053:9fff:fe28:cb2b/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The version we're running is detailed below. We rolled back the kernel as
we were having stability problems with 4.15.8 on our hardware (HP Proliant
Gen8)

root@ :/etc/network# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve: 5.2-2 (running kernel: 4.13.16-2-pve)
pve-manager: 5.2-7 (running version: 5.2-7/8d88e66a)
pve-kernel-4.15: 5.2-5
pve-kernel-4.15.18-2-pve: 4.15.18-20
pve-kernel-4.13.16-2-pve: 4.13.16-48
pve-kernel-4.13.13-2-pve: 4.13.13-33
ceph: 12.2.7-pve1
corosync: 2.4.2-pve5
criu: 2.11.1-1~bpo90
glusterfs-client: 3.8.8-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.2-2
libjs-extjs: 6.0.1-2
libpve-access-control: 5.0-8
libpve-apiclient-perl: 2.0-5
libpve-common-perl: 5.0-38
libpve-guest-common-perl: 2.0-17
libpve-http-server-perl: 2.0-10
libpve-storage-perl: 5.0-24
libqb0: 1.0.1-1
lvm2: 2.02.168-pve6
lxc-pve: 3.0.2+pve1-1
lxcfs: 3.0.0-1
novnc-pve: 1.0.0-2
openvswitch-switch: 2.7.0-3
proxmox-widget-toolkit: 1.0-19
pve-cluster: 5.0-29
pve-container: 2.0-25
pve-docs: 5.2-8
pve-firewall: 3.0-13
pve-firmware: 2.0-5
pve-ha-manager: 2.0-5
pve-i18n: 1.0-6
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.8-3
pve-qemu-kvm: 2.11.2-1
pve-xtermjs: 1.0-5
qemu-server: 5.0-32
smartmontools: 6.5+svn4324-1
spiceterm: 3.0-5
vncterm: 1.5-3
zfsutils-linux: 0.7.9-pve1~bpo9

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Brian Sidebotham

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