[ovs-discuss] vLANS is not working on Gentoo x86_64

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Mon Apr 11 18:30:46 UTC 2011


On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:38 AM, benzwt benzwt <benzwt at gmail.com> wrote:
> First of all, thank you for your helpful information.
>
> I'm sorry, I just realized that the e1000e drivers for linux-2.6.35
> and linux-2.6.38 is different, by "diff"ing the codes.
> I then suspected that maybe ubuntu(2.6.35) had patched the 8021q.
> After checking the codes, it turn out that the 8021q wasn't patched.
>
> I'll try to build e1000e module from linux-2.6.35 and test the VLANs.

There's too many moving parts here to just take pieces independently.
The vlan core infrastructure changed, which means that both Open
vSwitch and the drivers behave differently on the various kernel
versions.

If possible, the easiest solution is to just run on 2.6.35 for the time being.



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