On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:53:49PM -0800, Yongqiang Liu wrote: >> but when i added 3G interface, which appears as a ppp0 interface, there is >> an error: >> # ./ovs-dpctl add-if dp0 ppp0 >> Feb 02 21:41:03|00001|dpif|WARN|system@dp0: failed to add ppp0 as port: >> Invalid argument >> ovs-dpctl: adding ppp0 to dp0 failed (Invalid argument) >> >> the following is the interface information of ppp0: >> # ifconfig ppp0 >> ppp0: ip 10.231.190.28 mask 255.255.255.255 flags [up point-to-point running >> multicast >> >> Does anyone ever adds point-to-point interface to ovs on PC? > > Currently OVS only allows Ethernet interfaces (ARPHRD_ETHER) to be > added. A PPP interface presumably has PPP encapsulation (ARPHRD_PPP). > I don't think that PPP encapsulates Ethernet frames (doesn't it > typically encapsulate IP?). Since the Open vSwitch datapath only > supports Ethernet, I don't think that it will work. > > (There are lots of assumptions above; I haven't checked my facts. I > hope that someone will correct me if I am wrong.)
Yes, all of that is right. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
