[ovirt-users] Connection hickups with Pfsense and Carp

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Sun May 11 20:37:45 UTC 2014


On 04/17/2014 04:08 AM, Matt . wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm not able to write a howto yet as we need to check how this is
> running on high traffic and we are going soon. Than, we need to test
> some other functions before I can actually write something down.
>
> Because this is not all documented well indeed I'm in testmode and doing
> some @ life system as reallife environments are always coming with other
> things than your prefec test.
>
> I cannot say I needed promiscuouity, I did some things you would
> normally do on pfsense which fixed that part. Some old message you
> really need to discard instead of clicking it away was confusing this test.
>
>

you are not supposed to need the promiscious hook for sniffing/mirroring 
- that's by now part of engine/vdsm (at vnic level in earlier versions, 
and at network profile in later versions iirc)

>
>
> 2014-04-17 9:08 GMT+02:00 Dan Kenigsberg <danken at redhat.com
> <mailto:danken at redhat.com>>:
>
>     On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 01:11:13AM +0200, Matt . wrote:
>      > OK, also this is finetuned, but it would be nice to have some
>     more info
>      > about the hooks in these cases... it's interesting as oVirt has
>     the right
>      > settings to start with but we need to know what we need to set
>     when we have
>      > a setup like this for an example.
>
>     Could you explain what you have done, and what do you need promiscuouity
>     for? oVirt has "port mirroring" that allows to mirror ip traffic from
>     one vm network to another.
>
>      >
>      >
>      > 2014-04-17 0:35 GMT+02:00 Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:yamakasi.014 at gmail.com>>:
>      >
>      > > Traffic issues are solved, but the advertising in not that well.
>      > >
>      > > I see on ESXi (vSphere) that you need to enable "Promiscuous
>     Mode", but
>      > > how on oVirt ?
>      > >
>      > >
>     http://www.blissfulidiot.com/2013/11/using-carp-with-vmware-esxi.html
>      > >
>      > > Do I need the vdsm-hook-promisc for it ? as I need to make real
>     settings
>      > > on a VM there I think the vswitch only needs the mode.
>      > >
>      > > Information is welcome!
>
>
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