Ping does not work when hosts attached to two different switches in OVS-Switch

[Sourya Saha]

Hi.
I am trying out the example with OVS-Switch. But instead of 1 switch with 2 nodes, i have two different swithces with one host each. The following is the topology:

Note that the switches have been configured as per the OVS-Switch example. The hosts have been configured with IP 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2. The controller node can be seen to have 2 interfaces. The interface connected to swithc1 has IP 10.0.2.1 and that connected to swithc2 has IP 10.0.2.2. I have enabled Spanning tree protocol in both the switches. IP forwarding has been set to 1 in the controller node. But host1 does not get any reply to the ping to h2.

My slice ID is: ce5e92a8-152c-44c9-a5a2-2cd52300c0cc

I would be highly obliged if someone could help me with this. I am trying to setup an SDN exepriment.

[Sourya Saha]

I now converted the controller node to a switch and ping works now. I am still unable to comprehend why the controller was not forwarding the ICMP packets between its interfaces to reach the host2 when it was not a switch. It still has IPv4 forwarding enabled.

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