[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Add VLAN splinters unit test.

Alex Wang alexw at nicira.com
Tue Jun 25 01:13:32 UTC 2013


Thanks for the answers,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:56:31PM -0700, Alex Wang wrote:
> > 1. What is usually the bug in the buggy driver? How can using
> vlan-splinter
> > avoid that? I'm a bit confused here, since the "vlandev.c" code still
> talks
> > to linux device driver (e.g. when creating ADD_VLAN_CMD) via the "ioctl"
> > call.
>
> ovs-vlan-bug-workaround(8) has a lot of information:
>
> ......



This is very helpful. Also, Do you which file I should check to see how
packet (with vlan header) arrived on a trunk port is mapped to
corresponding vlandev port?



>  > 2. If vlan-splinter is not used,  the vswitchd will learn the vlan
> > configuration from the packets and record them in the learning table.
> right?
>
> If the driver is buggy, then the packets won't have the right
> information and vswitchd won't be able to compensate for it.


This makes sense after reading the FAQ and ovs-vlan-bug-workaround manual.
Thanks
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