On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Yue ZHANG <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have problem adding tun0 to ovs. > > The tun0 is an openvpn device: > tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr > 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 > inet addr:10.8.0.10 P-t-P:10.8.0.9 Mask:255.255.255.255 > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:4108 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:3738 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:345072 (336.9 KiB) TX bytes:327656 (319.9 KiB)
This is a point-to-point device, meaning that it operates on IP packets. Open vSwitch is an Ethernet switch, which is why it refuses to attach the device. I believe that Open VPN has a mode that will create a L2 tunnel instead of L3. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
