That's an artifact of OVS internals. I imagine that tap0 is not useful.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:32:51PM +0530, john paul wrote: > Ok, but why two interfaces gets added tap0 and tap1 does it for Rx/Tx > ? > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > If I recall correctly, NetBSD doesn't allow the user to choose the names > > of tap interfaces. The kernel selects the names of tap interfaces and > > userspace cannot influence or change the names. So you may have to deal > > with it. > > > > Normally you would use your system tools to configure IP address, etc. > > With GNU/Linux that's "ifconfig" or "ip"; with NetBSD I do not know. > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:20:43PM +0530, john paul wrote: > > > thanks for your quick reply. > > > it works but not able to see br0 in ifconfig, the interfaces added in the > > > list is tap0,tap1 > > > I can see bridge in ovs-vsctl show ,but how can I configure for IP > > address > > > and gateway? > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 06:48:45PM +0530, john paul wrote: > > > > > I am trying to run OVS-2.3 on NetBSD 6.1.4 i386 but getting following > > > > > problem, > > > > > when I am trying to add bridge br0 using > > > > > # ovs-vsctl add-br br0 > > > > > ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'br0'. > > > > > > > > You should add the bridge and set its datapath_type to netdev in the > > > > same ovs-vsctl invocation, otherwise you'll get this kind of error > > > > after the add-br command. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
