[ovs-discuss] Error in running on NetBSD

[Ben Pfaff]

That's an artifact of OVS internals.  I imagine that tap0 is not useful.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:32:51PM +0530, john paul wrote:
> Ok, but why two interfaces gets added tap0 and tap1 does it for Rx/Tx
> ?
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > If I recall correctly, NetBSD doesn't allow the user to choose the names
> > of tap interfaces.  The kernel selects the names of tap interfaces and
> > userspace cannot influence or change the names.  So you may have to deal
> > with it.
> >
> > Normally you would use your system tools to configure IP address, etc.
> > With GNU/Linux that's "ifconfig" or "ip"; with NetBSD I do not know.
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:20:43PM +0530, john paul wrote:
> > > thanks for your quick reply.
> > > it works but not able to see br0 in ifconfig, the interfaces added in the
> > > list is tap0,tap1
> > > I can see bridge in ovs-vsctl show ,but how can I configure for IP
> > address
> > > and gateway?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 06:48:45PM +0530, john paul wrote:
> > > > > I am trying to run OVS-2.3 on NetBSD 6.1.4 i386 but getting following
> > > > > problem,
> > > > > when I am trying to add bridge br0 using
> > > > >  # ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> > > > > ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'br0'.
> > > >
> > > > You should add the bridge and set its datapath_type to netdev in the
> > > > same ovs-vsctl invocation, otherwise you'll get this kind of error
> > > > after the add-br command.
> > > >
> >