[ovs-discuss] ovs-dpctl not showing tap ports

[Richard Neumann]

Hi everybody,

I encountered the strange problem that after adding tap interfaces to an
ovs bridge, they won't show up in ovs-dpctl:

root at isp:~# ovs-vsctl add-br br0
root at isp:~# ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth9
root at isp:~# ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tun0
root at isp:~# ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tun1
root at isp:~# ovs-vsctl list-ports br0
eth9
tun0
tun1
root at isp:~# ovs-dpctl show br0
system at br0:
	lookups: hit:0 missed:0 lost:0
	flows: 0
	port 0: br0 (internal)
	port 1: eth9

I am missing tun0 and tun1 in this output for I want to know their
respective port numbers to setup appropriate flow entries.

OpenvSwitch version is:
ovs-vsctl (Open vSwitch) 1.9.0
Compiled Aug  8 2013 05:17:36

OS is Ubuntu 10.04 i686.

What I want to do is to forward any packet coming in from the two tap
adapters to a physical (eth9) device.
I hope you can give me some hint.

Best regards,

Richard