[ovs-discuss] Bug - GRE - Address family not supported by protocol.

Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com
Mon Jul 15 00:48:08 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Brandon Lee <devmgr1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm running CentOS 6.4, with Kernel /2.6.32-358.111.1.openstack.el6.x86_64.
> I recompiled and install openvswitch to enable GRE support, however, I am
> still getting the error shown below.  I also made sure that the
> openvswitch.ko module was loaded by removing the existing .ko files, and
> replace it with the new one generated, however, I am still getting the same
> error.  Is this a bug or can anyone recommend a fix?
>
> Error
> 2013-07-14T22:58:25Z|00080|dpif|WARN|system at ovs-system: failed to add gre2
> as port: Address family not supported by protocol.
>



Which version of user-space openvswitch package are you using?

If you are using an old version, then there is some inconsistency
between user-space and kernel-space which leads to such an error.



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