[ovs-dev] Bug with GRE tunnel and "ip xfrm" GRE match?

Harsh Jain harshjain.prof at gmail.com
Wed Oct 18 07:14:19 UTC 2017


Also sdding netdev for more inputs.

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Harsh Jain <harshjain.prof at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi keith,
>
> Its being a long time when I observed this issue. What I remember is ,
> The kernel patch which I shared was not compatible with latest kernel.
> there after I switched to another project, Didn't get chane to
> re-produce the issue. It is an OVS bug. I am adding ovs Dev team may
> be they can help you out.
>
> Regards
> Harsh Jain
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 5:19 AM, Keith Holleman
> <holleman at skyportsystems.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know the status of this problem?  The code has changed from the
>> original proposed patch but I don't think I see it fixed as of yet.
>>
>> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2015-June/037681.html
>>
>> I can't find an issue that was ever raised to track this either.
>>
>> The reason I'm asking is that I have run into what seems to be very similar
>> behavior where an installed "ip xfrm" policy that attempts to match on GRE
>> keys but does not seem to work when the GRE packet is generated by a local
>> OVS switch.
>>
>> -K


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