[ovs-discuss] When a controller is plugged in vlans stop working: normal?

Pasquale Dir phate867 at gmail.com
Mon May 5 20:56:01 UTC 2014


Yes, that way it works fine, I already tried it...so you confirm me that
for openvswitch to work I need at least a working external network
interface?


2014-05-05 22:51 GMT+02:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>:

> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:49:31PM +0200, Pasquale Dir wrote:
> > I already read that article but that is a configuration I'd like to avoid
> > as I would need to double the number of my switches and ports (gre+tep
> for
> > each link).
> >
> > I'd just like to know if eth0 should not be attached to the switch in
> order
> > for the gre tunnel to work or if I am doing something wrong.
>
> Not attaching eth0 to the switch is probably easiest.  It's a valid
> alternative to having two bridges.
>
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