The documentation needs to specify that for GRE tunnels there is no support for legacy_l3 type packets in the kernel datapath.
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <[email protected]> --- vswitchd/vswitch.xml | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml index efa1ef8..b0b42e0 100644 --- a/vswitchd/vswitch.xml +++ b/vswitchd/vswitch.xml @@ -2700,6 +2700,12 @@ OpenFlow controllers that expect this behavior. </li> <li> + The <code>legacy_l3</code> option is only available via the + user space datapath. The OVS kernel datapath does not support + devices of type ARPHRD_IPGRE which is the requirement for + <code>legacy_l3</code> type packets. + </li> + <li> If this option is <code>ptap</code>, the tunnel sends and receives any kind of packet. Open vSwitch represents packets in the tunnel using the <code>packet_type</code> mechanism -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
