[ovs-discuss] vlan_mode native-untagged

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:45:00PM -0500, Michael A. Collins wrote:
> I am trying to get this feature to work in my environment, but I can
> not for the life of me figure it out.  I have two ovs' sitting on
> two separate boxes connected through an external switch.  I have
> updated each bridge port to be native-untagged and updated the tag
> with the vlan as well.  I have updated the trunk port egressing out
> of each ovs to the external switch.  I have configured the external
> switch to tag all vlans except the vlan in question.  I can see the
> changes to the bridge ports working as configured, when I tcpdump on
> the vm I see the packet untagged, when I tcpdump on the bridges,
> both fake and real, I see the packet untagged.  I can not tcpdump on
> the trunk port, but I can on the individual ethx interfaces, that's
> where I see the packet tagged.  So before it leaves my box it is
> tagged.  Is native-untagged supposed to work with bonds?  Thanks,

Native-untagged should work on bonds.

Your description of the tcpdump output doesn't help much.  You don't
say whether the packet in question is in the native VLAN, so, while
you tell us at each point whether the tag is there, we don't know
whether it's supposed to be there.