On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 03:58:18PM +0800, zhangwqh wrote: > I met a problem. I want to firstly create a tap device. I used the > tool tunctl to create the tap device, After that, I attached the > interface to openvswitch bridge. When check the type, the type is > empty string.
That's fine and expected. > From the man 5 ovs-vswitchd.conf.db, > > > type: string > The interface type, one of: > > > system An ordinary network device, e.g. eth0 on Linux. > Sometimes referred to as ''external interfaces'' since they are generally > connected to hardware > external to that on which the Open vSwitch is running. > The empty string is a synonym for system. Note the final sentence above. > it seems that after attaching to bridge, the type is system > type. Usually the physical ethernet port is system type. When I want > to send the packets to vxlan device from the tap device I created > using tunctl(I have set a flow entry from tap device to vxlan > device), I found that the tap device dropped all of the packets. Can > anybody give me some advices why this happens? I don't know, because I don't have enough information, but the interface type is not what you should focus on. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
