[ovs-discuss] QinQ support

Thomas F Herbert thomasfherbert at gmail.com
Tue Jan 6 00:30:26 UTC 2015


Dimitar,

Open vSwitch does not currently support 802.1ad. I have submitted a 
patch for 802.1ad and I am in the process of submitting a new version. 
However, 802.1ad will not solve the namespace problem. Perhaps you are 
thinking of 802.1ah?

--Tom

On 1/5/15 3:51 PM, Dimitar Ianakiev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are using openvswitch for some time and we are trying to implement
> "private vlans" for our customers. Each customer should have vlan(s)
> between his/her virtual instances. The problem with 802.1q vlans is that
> we are expecting more than 4094 clients per openvswitch instance and the
> vlan limit is 4096. We are considering QinQ(802.1ad).
>
> My question is if ovs supports QinQ and how this can be achieved ?
> Please propose other approach if this is not a good solution to the problem.
>
> Regards
> Dimitar Ianakiev
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Thomas F. Herbert




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