[ovs-discuss] Open vswitch and an existing vlan

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:11:10PM -0400, Maxwell Bottiger wrote:
> I'm working off the the tutorial in the open vswitch VLANS cookbook.  I've
> followed the directions as best I could, but I still don't have things
> quite working correctly.  To start with, here is my configuration:
> 
> d70e42a8-1b7e-433d-a2c2-921e3c720e8e
>     Bridge "bridge0"
>         Port "tap1"
>             tag: 2
>             Interface "tap1"
>         Port "eth1"
>             tag: 666
>             trunks: [2, 6]
>             Interface "eth1"
>         Port "tap0"
>             tag: 6
>             Interface "tap0"
>         Port "bridge0"
>             Interface "bridge0"
>                 type: internal
>     ovs_version: "1.4.3"
> 
> 
> I have eth1 of my workstation connected to the trunked port on one of my
> switches.  The trunk VLAN is 666 on this setup.  I have two tap interfaces
> defined, one should be on VLAN 6, the other on VLAN 2.  The desired outcome
> is to have a virtual machine on tap0 connect straight through to VLAN6, and
> a vm on tap1 connect directly through to the other resources on VLAN2.  I'm
> not sure if having a trunk with an odd PVID is throwing me off, or if
> there's something more I need to set.  I looked at eth1 with wireshark, and
> I can see traffic from all the other VLANs, so I'm pretty sure that
> connection is solid.  I saw in other emails in the archive that people
> often wanted to see the ovs-ofctl output, so I'll include that too.

Did you actually configure eth1 as native-tagged or native-untagged?
"ovs-vsctl show" doesn't display that, so I can't tell.