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hi,</div>
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1) From the openstack documents, we know that for the tenant's dhcp functionality, the usage is to connect a dhcp netns to the ovs using a tap interface.</div>
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At the same time, the ovs-vsctl show that the tap interface is a type of internal interface for OVS. </div>
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While I could not add a tap type interface to ovs as an internal type of interface for OVS.</div>
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The commands I used,</div>
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a) ip tuntap add dev tap0 mode tap.</div>
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b) ovs-vsctl add-port ovs0 tap0 -- set inteface tap0 type=internal</div>
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<div>error: "could not add network device tap12 to ofproto (No such device)"</div>
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<div>2) My questions are ,</div>
<div> a) how to add a tap interface to OVS and set it as internal type of interface of OVS?</div>
<div> b) Even if the tap interface could be added into ovs, could it be added into a netns again? If the tap interface could be added into ovs and a netns, how the traffic flows between the ovs and netns.</div>
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<div>Much thanks.</div>
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