Network connectivity when using VXLAN with Cisco enic NIC is intermittent; packets are seen to be lost. Affects OpenStack environments.
Issue
- A container in an OpenStack container fails to connect to a remote instance right away. It may eventually connect but connectivity continues to be intermittent.
- Pings between the same systems works without issue.
- Packet capture analysis shows the issue is caused by some of the VXLAN encapsulated traffic disappearing.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- enic driver
- Cisco UCS hardware
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