[Users] OpenVZ on EL6 - weird network issue

[Pavel Odintsov]

Hello!

You can read this ticket
https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2896 and can find all
answer there.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Michael Stauber <mstauber at blueonyx.it> wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
>> Did you tried open-v-switch instead standard Linux bridges?
>
> I actually wasn't aware of that one before you mentioned it.
>
> I'm just starting to read the docs and specs of it and it looks indeed
> very interesting.
>
> Do you by chance have any specific pointers or docs how to set it up for
> usage with OpenVZ? I'm willing to give it a shot, but with these client
> systems I can't afford much in the way of experimenting. Taking the
> bridge stack apart and replacing it with something else might be a
> little too extreme, but I'll consider it as last resort. In any case I'd
> like to avoid the usual beginner mistakes one could make when switching
> to open-v-switch, so any tips and hints (or URLs to reading material)
> would be appreciated.
>
> As for Scott's suggestion with a cronjob with arp-seeds:
>
> I did some digging and the network related shell scripts of OpenVZ are
> quite enlightening there:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-venet
> /usr/libexec/vzctl/scripts/vps-functions
>
> It appears that if I set up a cronjob that periodically runs ...
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-venet
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
>
> ... then it'll handle the arp-seeds as well via the function vzarp() as
> provided by /usr/libexec/vzctl/scripts/vps-functions.
>
> I tried it on a test box and it didn't appear to have any negative
> impact. Some debugging lines thrown in by me also showed me the exact
> commands that these scripts use to do the arp-seeds. I can work with that.
>
> I'll implement that on the three affected nodes and will see if it helps.
>
> --
> With best regards
>
> Michael Stauber
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-- 
Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov