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.
> >
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