[ovs-discuss] Unsupported Tunnel type

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Fri Feb 8 07:01:44 UTC 2013


Try type "gre", not "gre0". 

--Justin


On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:49 PM, maryam hanfi <mryamhanfi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using OVS-1.7.1 and I tried to add gre0 which is an unsupported type in OVS. It gives me warning and complains about family not supported. But when I run ovs-vsctl show command, it list gre0 as port with type gre0 in the datapath. If type is unknown or protocol is not supported should it not throw an error and fail to create the port? In this case it just gives the warning and still adds port to the datapath. 
> 
> See output below
> 
> [root at localhost openvswitch-1.7.1]# ovs-vsctl add-port br1 gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre0 options:remote_ip=1.3.17.234
> 2013-02-07T11:44:15Z|00016|netdev|WARN|could not create netdev gre0 of unknown type gre0
> 2013-02-07T11:44:15Z|00017|bridge|WARN|could not open network device gre0 (Address family not supported by protocol)
> 2013-02-07T11:44:15Z|00018|bridge|WARN|bridge br1: using default bridge Ethernet address 62:46:d1:07:b7:4e
> 
> But ovs-vsctl shows that a port gre0 with type gre0 is been added to br1.
> 
> [root at localhost openvswitch-1.7.1]# ovs-vsctl show
> 35803b12-70e9-433a-a41d-23aecd7e2f74
>     Bridge "br1"
>         Port "gre0"
>             Interface "gre0"
>                 type: "gre0"
>                 options: {remote_ip="10.1.1.2"}
>         Port "br1"
>             Interface "br1"
>                 type: internal
>     Bridge "br0"
>         Port "eth0"
>             Interface "eth0"
>         Port "br0"
>             Interface "br0"
>                 type: internal
> 
> Regards
> Maryam
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