[ovs-discuss] How to consistently implement VLAN forwarding/tagging in OVSDB

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 08:00:04PM -0400, Bernie Ongewe wrote:
> Good day all
> 
> Trying to implement VLAN forwarding/membership with ovsdb-client but
> getting very inconsistent behavior.
> 
> Following the discussion at
> http://openvswitch.org/support/dist-docs/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5.txt this is
> how I'd want to get x1 in native VLAN 100 and have those frames show up
> tagged on VLAN 500.
> 
> Below is the output for;
> sudo ovsdb-client dump tcp:<IP_ADDRESS>:6632 | egrep -A8 "Port table" |sed
> "s/\s\+/ /g"| cut -f 1,12,19-21 -d" "

It sounds like you want OVS to do some kind of VLAN translation, where a
packet that comes in tagged with 100 goes out tagged with 500?  OVS
doesn't support VLAN translation.