[ovs-discuss] Reg. port mirroring problem between two OVS in same host machine

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Apr 26 14:55:05 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 04:38:38PM +0530, ESWAR RAO wrote:
> I created a patch port between these two OVS using the below link:
> http://blog.scottlowe.org/2012/11/27/connecting-ovs-bridges-with-patch-ports/

Why?

> I created a port mirroring using:
> # ovs-vsctl \
> -- --id=@m create mirror name=m0 select-all=true select-vlan=10 \
> 
> output-vlan=9 \
> -- set bridge br1 mirrors=@m
> 
> I tried to ping from VM3 and VM4. The ping was successful since in same
> vlan.
> 
> Since I created a mirror port to output the frames to vlan 9, I did tcpdump
> on vent0/vnet1 but didn't observe any ICMP packets.

What version of Open vSwitch is this?



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