[ovs-discuss] VLAN trunk mode documentation

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Kurt Albershardt <kurt at nv.net> wrote:
> I used syntax I found online which did not appear in the man pages for ovs-vsctl or the cookbooks:
>
> ovs-vsctl set port eth0 vlan_mode=trunk trunks=0,11,33,44,55,66,99
>
> There is sparse documentation in the man pages for ovs-vswitchd.conf.db
>
> How do I change this port back to a trunk which passes all tagged and untagged traffic?  None of the following removes the trunk list from the db:
>
> Setting vlan_mode=trunk
> Setting vlan_mode=native-untagged
> Setting vlan_mode=access
>
> trunks=all
> and
> trunks=*
> are invalid syntax.

You want to clear trunks to an empty list, e.g. "ovs-vsctl clear port
eth0 trunks".