[ovs-discuss] Adding a new vlan will caused the host lost connection

[Jesse Gross]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Kris zhang <zhang.kris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I use ovs-1.7.1, and i run ovs on a single NIC host (CentOS):
>
> # ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> # ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
>
> Then i setup the eth0 interface's other_config:
> enable-vlan-splinters="true".
>
> Last I ping this host by another PC, and at same time i do this:
>
> # ovs-vsctl add-port taptest br0 tag=100
>
> I found there are 4 "Request timed out." happened. That means the host lost
> connect about 4 seconds.
>
> If i remove the vlan splinters on interface eth0. it won't happen.
> So does anybody know the reason?

Is the other machine actually on that VLAN?