[ovs-discuss] Multiple vlan headers

[Xiao Liang]

I see Tom submitting kernel patch for review, and is working on
userspace patches:
<http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-October/060874.html>

But haven't seen updates recently. Anyone know the progress?

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Scott Lowe <scott.lowe at scottlowe.org> wrote:
> Please don't drop the list. Please see my responses inline, prefixed by [SL].
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>> On May 13, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Abhijit Bhadra <abhijit.bhadra at broadcom.com> wrote:
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>> Scott,
>> Thanks. Then what is the purpose of push_vlan operation?  Is it supported on ovs 230? Can you provide me an example of ovs-ofctl which involves push_vlan operation?
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> [SL] As I understand it (and I'm not an expert), push_vlan would be for adding a VLAN ID to matched packets, and would be used in a case where you want OVS to add a VLAN ID to traffic (for whatever reason). More details are available via the ovs-ofctl(8) man page:
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> <http://openvswitch.org/support/dist-docs/ovs-ofctl.8.pdf>
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> Your second question is probably best addressed by others on the list.
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>> Regards,
>> Abhijit
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>> On May 13, 2016 9:58 PM, "Scott Lowe" <scott.lowe at scottlowe.org> wrote:
>> Please see my response below.
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>> > On May 13, 2016, at 7:19 AM, Abhijit Bhadra <abhijit.bhadra at broadcom.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > Is Multiple VLAN headers supported in ovs 2.3.0? I want to achieve q-in-q by doing push_vlan operations. If it  is not supported, which version of OVS do I need to upgrade to?
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>> I could be mistaken so I'll defer to others more knowledgeable, but I don't believe Q-in-Q (802.1ad) is supported by OVS:
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>> <http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-April/017319.html>
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>> Things may have changed since that e-mail thread, of course.
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>> --
>> Scott
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