[ovs-discuss] Sending tun_id over VXLAN tunnel

[Liran Schour]

Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote on 22/04/2013 06:31:19 PM:

> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 04:27:12PM +0300, Liran Schour wrote:
> > I am using Openvswitch 1.10.90.
> > I tried to pass tun_id over VXLAN tunnel by setting a flow for that and
> > match tun_id on the destination side and failed to do that.
> > It seems like the tun_id did not pass on the wire.
> >
> > On the source side I added the following flow:
> >    ovs-ofctl add-flow br-int "in_port=2
> > actions=set_tunnel:123456,output:6"
> >
> > On the destination I added:
> >    ovs-ofctl add-flow br-int "in_port=1 tun_id=123456 actions=normal"
> > I did not have a match on this flow on the destination side.
>
> Are your ports configured as vxlan?
>
Yes, and without trying to match the tun_id packet forwarding is working
OK.