[ovs-discuss] OpenVswitch with Vlans.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue May 24 03:03:25 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:50:29AM +0100, manel med wrote:
> 2011/5/23 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> 
> > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 06:55:16PM +0100, manel med wrote:
> > The usual way to do this would be something like this:
> >        ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tap0 tag=10
> >        ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tap1 tag=20
> > if tap0 and tap1 are the network devices for VM 1 and VM 2,
> > respectively.  I tried it just now with the 1.1 branch and it worked
> > OK for me.
> >
> what do you mean by  the 1.1 branch,please?

It is the line of development from which 1.1.x releases will be made.
It is 1.1.0 plus bug fixes.

> I'm confused, does this configuration (in the same physical host) provide
> layer 3 isolation.

Layer 2 isolation. 

> eth0 is not attached to br0.

That's OK.

> i do exctly the configuration above.
> and vnet (virtual interface of vm in nova (openstack)) is similar to tap.

It ought to work, then.



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