[ovs-discuss] VXLAN

Kyle Mestery (kmestery) kmestery at cisco.com
Sun Mar 3 02:25:36 UTC 2013


On Mar 2, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Martin Mailand <martin at tuxadero.com> wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
> 
> I found the patch and applied it. So far so good, gre tunnel are still
> working, but I cannot get a vxlan tunnel to work.
> 
> I tried the following command.
> 
> ovs-vsctl add-port br-tun vx1 -- set interface vx1 type=vxlan
> options:remote_ip=192.168.194.1
> 
> I get this error.
> 
> 2013-03-02T20:10:40Z|00010|dpif|WARN|system at ovs-system: failed to add
> vx1 as port: Invalid argument
> 
> 
> What is wrong? The command or messed I up the kernel module build?
> 
Did you apply the patch to the latest master? I verified Pravin's patch with
that and it worked fine for me. I am adding VXLAN ports the same way you
are, though I'm also specifying "options:key=flow".

Thanks,
Kyle



> -martin
> 
> On 01.03.2013 15:39, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote:
>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 8:26 AM, Martin Mailand <martin at tuxadero.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Kyle,
>>> 
>>> thanks for the quick response, where could I find this patch?
>>> 
>> The latest version (v7) was posted to the dev list yesterday I believe.
>> 
>>> -martin
>>> 
>>> On 01.03.2013 15:18, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote:
>>>> On Mar 1, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Martin Mailand <martin at tuxadero.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> are there any updates regarding the patch for VXLAN?
>>>>> 
>>>> VXLAN should be stable and working on master and 1.10 again once one additional
>>>> patch from Pravin (with the title "Tunnel: Cleanup old tunnel infrastructure") goes
>>>> into main. I've tested with the latest main and this patch and things are back to
>>>> where they were before.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Kyle
>>>> 
>>>>> -martin
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 22.02.2013 17:48, Jesse Gross wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Martin Mailand <martin at tuxadero.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> after a bit of try and error everything is working now, except for vxlan.
>>>>>>> I found in the devel mail archive, that it is broken at the moment, but
>>>>>>> that patches are underway. What is the current state?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There's a patch out for review.
>>>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>> 





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