[ovs-discuss] invalid Ethertype 0 in flow key

Jamshaid Faisal j.faisal at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 23:08:13 UTC 2018


I got some more details, Here is exactly how to get it on a clean install

rm -rf /etc/openvswitch/conf.db
service openvswitch restart
ovs-vsctl add-br mybridge
ovs-vsctl --may-exist add-port mybridge myport -- set interface myport
type=vxlan options:remote_ip=10.1.1.1

And there you go, i start getting below lines in /var/log/messages

ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00001|odp_util(revalidator18)|ERR|invalid Ethertype 0 in
flow key
ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00002|odp_util(revalidator18)|ERR|invalid Ethertype 0 in
flow key
ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00003|odp_util(revalidator18)|ERR|invalid Ethertype 0 in
flow key
ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00004|odp_util(revalidator18)|ERR|invalid Ethertype 0 in
flow key
ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00005|odp_util(revalidator18)|ERR|invalid Ethertype 0 in
flow key

What i am doing wrong?

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:10 AM, Jamshaid Faisal <j.faisal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>
> Lately i have seen a lot of below messages in log (/var/log/messages). It
> is happening no matter which OVS version i use. Below log is from ovs 2.7.2
>
>
> ===========================
> Feb 12 12:03:21 SGP1-1-10 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00135|odp_util(revalidator72)|ERR|Dropped
> 27 log messages in last 58 seconds (most recently, 3 seconds ago) due to
> excessive rate
> Feb 12 12:03:21 SGP1-1-10 ovs-vswitchd: ovs|00136|odp_util(revalidator72)|ERR|invalid
> Ethertype 0 in flow key
> ===========================
>
>
> They even happens with minimum config without vxlan etc.
> I am using XEN and its hot-plug script vif-openvsiwtch. Openvswitch is
> compiled with default options.
>
> What does these messages really mean?
>
> I dont see any functional issues, VMs have network, VXLAN also works
> fine,  But why lot of above messages in log ?
>
> Please help.
>
> Regards
>
>
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