[ovs-discuss] Virtual Switch Tagging in open vswitch?

[Ben Pfaff]

It did show up on the list; at least, I received your previous mail.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:28:03PM +0800, David V. Cloud wrote:
> ... my previous mail didn't show up on the list.. try to resend. sorry.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:54 AM, David V. Cloud <david.v.cloud at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I have gone through the ovs-vswitchd and ovs-vswitchd.conf man pages. I
> > couldn't find anything similar to Virtual Switch Tagging (VST mode) in
> > VMware ESX. Basically, "the virtual switch port group tags all outbound
> > frames and removes tags for all inbound frames." I have tried 'Untagged VLAN
> > Ports'. Although, similar, this is different from VST mode. It will only
> > receive frames with 802.1Q headers of specified VID. However, the outbound
> > frames are untagged. I have verify the above statement using two KVM virtual
> > machines together with usermode open vswitch (open vswitch kernel module
> > won't compile on 2.6.32.8 Linux kernel.
> >
> > So, I am wondering if I can implement something similar to VST mode on open
> > vswitch? Correct me if I have any misunderstanding about VLAN support in
> > open vswitch.
> >
> > p.s. The VST mode and some other VLAN features are documented at
> > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_vlan_wp.pdf
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ~D
> >
> >
> >

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