[ovs-discuss] OpenVSwitch Port mirroring

CS Lee geek00l at gmail.com
Mon Dec 6 08:25:50 UTC 2010


hi guys,

I have port mirroring setup now and it seems to be working, thank you.

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:18 PM, CS Lee <geek00l at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for quick response, I have actually tried to compile the latest
> version(from git) on Ubuntu but it runs into some compile error when I run
> make, I will put them in different post. And I need to run all these in
> production environment once everything is setup.
>
> I tried to search in the manual for the version I'm using which is
> 1.1.0pre2 and it only has qos setup example and it doesn't contain port
> mirroring setup, the port mirroring example I got is from the online manual
> in openvswitch website. Right now I'm reading OpenVSwitch database schema to
> have better understanding of how to get it configured.
>
> By the way the netflow example in the online manual works, so maybe it is
> really the new feature that not implemented in 1.1.0pre2, if anyone has
> example of how to configure port mirroring 1.1.0pre2, please help.
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 5, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:43 PM, CS Lee <geek00l at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> However I get this message -
>> >>
>> >> sudo ovs-vsctl -- set Bridge br0 mirrors=@m -- --id=@vi1.1 get Port
>> vi1.1 --
>> >> --id=@vi1.4 get Port vi1.4 -- --id=@m create Mirror name=testspan
>> >> select-dst-port=@vi1.1 select-src-port=vi1.1 output-port=@vi1.4
>> >>
>> >> ovs-vsctl: 'get' command has no '--id' option
>> >
>> > The --id option on 'get' was introduced recently, so it sounds like
>> > the manual that you are reading is for a newer version of Open vSwitch
>> > than you have installed.  If you can, install a newer version.
>>
>> The newer version will have to be from the master branch, since the
>> current release (1.1.0pre2) preceded that functionality by a couple of
>> weeks.  CS, the code in the master branch is going under some major work
>> right now, so if you need this for production, I wouldn't recommend using it
>> until we've done a QA run on it in a few weeks.  The man page included in
>> your distribution should be correct, so you may want to look at the
>> ovs-vsctl man page to figure out how to configure mirroring without the
>> "--id" flag.
>>
>> --Justin
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> CS Lee<geek00L[at]gmail.com>
>
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