[ovs-dev] Source code

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:54 AM,  <mvpbl_c at iol.pt> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm analyzing the openvSwitch source code and I think that at some point in
> the openvSwaitch code, the ethernet packet, is sort of divided in two, when
> and where the vlan tag field is added and them the packet is reassembled
> again.
> Someone can tell if this really happens? If so, where in the code this is
> done?

Packets are not divided and reassembled.  Inserting a vlan tag just
requires shifting part of the packet headers in memory.