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

Aaron Rosen arosen at clemson.edu
Thu Sep 8 03:52:00 UTC 2011


As far as I know.

If you are sending vlan tagged traffic yes. (If it's untagged no).

Aaron

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Jen-Wei Hu <jenweihu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> It works well if the cisco switch contains the Vlan IDs which used in VMs.
> So, we have to manually add all Vlan IDs (which will be used in VMs) in
> advance?
>
> Thanks,
> Jen-Wei
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Aaron Rosen <arosen at clemson.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Is the trunk port on the cisco switch set to be the same vlan id that
>> is coming out of the VMs?
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> > I only know how to configure OVS.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:31:38AM +0800, Jen-Wei Hu wrote:
>> >> Thanks for your quick reply. Could you kindly share and describe how
>> >> other
>> >> brands switch must configure when creating new VLAN ID on OVS?
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Aaron O. Rosen
>> Masters Student - Network Communication
>> 306B Fluor Daniel
>
>



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