[ovs-discuss] Adding VLAN tag in flow

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 09:38:36AM +0100, Benoît wrote:
> I have tried :
> ovs-ofctl add-flow vswitch_rspan
> priority=500,in_port=8,actions=mod_vlan_vid:888,output:7
> 
> but I am not seeing the VLAN id.

That should work.

> I found another command type but I got an error.
> ovs-ofctl add-flow vswitch_rspan priority=500,in_port=8,actions=push_vlan:0x8100,set_field:0-\>vlan_vid,output:7
> 
> ovs-ofctl: none of the usable flow formats (OXM,OpenFlow11) is among the
> allowed flow formats (OpenFlow10,NXM)

You do need to specify what protocol you want, since OpenFlow 1.0
doesn't support push_vlan.  But it's weird that you want VLAN 0.

> Is there another way to add vlan, or do I make mistake doing like this?