[ovs-discuss] Question about GRE support

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:49 AM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, ovs-discuss list,
>
> My question is: is GRE  supported when running latest ovs from the git repo
> with the original openvswitch module from kernel 3.11 ? or should I use the
> kernel module which comes with the userspace tree ?
>
> The reason is that when running:
> ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> and
> ovs-vsctl add-port br0 gre1 -- set interface gre1 type=gre
> options:remote_ip=192.168.2.10
> I am getting:
> ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'gre1'.  See ovs-vswitchd
> log for details.
> and
> In
>  /var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log
> I have:
> failed to add gre1 as port: Address family not supported by protocol

GRE should work with the upstream kernel in 3.11. I would look at
dmesg and check to see that you have the module version loaded that
you expect.