On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 02:14:06PM +0100, Rizwan ul haq wrote:
> I am using ovs 1.7 so that it has openflow support builtin.

Every version of OVS has OpenFlow support built-in.

> Now on my Linux machine (CentOS 6.3), i configure a PPP tunnel as a client
> so that once the tunnel is up, i have a virtual interface ppp0 along with
> physical interface eth0 on my machine.
> 
> My target was to control these two ports eth0 and ppp0 using ovs openflow
> mechanism.
> 
> To proceed, i created a bridge interface, slapped eth0 ip on it, and added
> both eth0 and ppp0 (pt-2-pt tunnel, pppoe) to this bridge. Normally if i
> try to bridge an ethernet port with ppp tunnel using brctl, it never works,
> however using openvswitch i never get any error and both ports are added
> and can be shown by giving *ovs-vsctl show br0* command.

ovs-vsctl shows the state of the Open vSwitch database.  You
successfully added ppp0 to the database.

> However, when i query this ovs to show ports, it only returns the loopback
> br0 and eth0 port and there is nothing shown for ppp0. same result i get by
> connecting this switch to external openflow controller.

ppp0 is not an Ethernet interface, so your configuration can't actually
be realized.
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