[ovs-dev] Unable to recieve tagged packets on OVS bridge

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Aug 28 22:35:28 UTC 2018


On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:10:03AM +0200, Alvaro Jimenez wrote:
> I'm trying to recieve tagged packets and route them using ovs depending on
> the VLAN tag value. I created and added eth0.101, eth0.201 and eth0.301 to
> the ovs bridge. I'm able to recieve packets in those interfaces but there's
> no VLAN tag when i tcpdump them. Moreover, when i tcpdump eth0 interface i
> am able to see the tagged frames. Are the vlan subinterfaces popping the
> VLAN tag? 

Yes.

> Is there any other way to recieve the tagged frames on the
> openvswitch?

Yes.  The documentation and the FAQ talk about VLANs a lot.  Did you
read ovs-vsctl(8)?  Did you read the FAQ chapter about VLANs?
http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/faq/vlan/


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