I think that PPP provides an IP service, not an Ethernet service. I don't think it makes sense to speak of bridging between IP and Ethernet. One would normally perform routing, perhaps using the Linux TCP/IP stack.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:08:10PM +0100, Rizwan ul haq wrote: > Hi Ben, so any workaround possible considering a linux machine, i can't > bridge ppp with eth0 any other way to do this?? > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
