[ovs-discuss] How to apply VLAN tag in different hosts?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Sep 8 02:01:55 UTC 2011


No, I don't know how to configure a Cisco switch.  I hope that someone
else can suggest how to do this.

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:39:44AM +0800, Jen-Wei Hu wrote:
> Sorry for the poor English. I try to describe my problem clearly. Currently,
> we could configure the VLAN function of OVS successfully and work well when
> our two servers (installed OVS) directly connected via a network cable. But
> when we deploy these two servers to our physical switch, we meet a problem
> that the VMs on these servers (have the same VLAN ID) could not ping
> successfully. Our physical switch is Cisco 3750 and we have set the ports,
> connected two servers, to be trunking ports. Would you have any experiences
> for this situation?
> 
> Thanks again
> Jen-Wei
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> >  On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:11:58PM +0800, Jen-Wei Hu wrote:
> > > Recently, we would like to let our deployed VMs that could be separated
> > by
> > > VLAN. In this link (
> > >
> > http://openvswitch.org/support/config-cookbooks/vlan-configuration-cookbook/
> > ),
> > > it mentions that we should set up trunking ports on physical switches.
> > Our
> > > switch is a port-based to set VLAN ID, so we need to manually add all
> > > created VLAN IDs in OVS? That is the only way to do? We appreciate
> > someone
> > > could share nice experience or advice for this problem. Thanks!
> >
> > I don't understand the question.  Are you asking how to configure OVS or
> > how to configure your physical switch?
> >



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