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

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Wed Feb 24 05:36:20 UTC 2010


I received them, too.  Strangely, they're not appearing in the archive.  

I'll look into it tomorrow.

--Justin


On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:34 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> 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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