On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 09:30:18AM -0700, Gregory Rose wrote: > > On 6/4/2019 11:38 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 06:08:00PM +0000, Eli Britstein wrote: > > > On 6/4/2019 8:24 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 03:13:02PM +0000, Eli Britstein wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > I would like to configure a GRE tunnel over IPv6, on a Linux system. > > > > > However, I encounter the following: > > > > > > > > > > My command: > > > > > ovs-vsctl add-port br1 gre6 -- set interface gre6 type=ip6gre > > > > > options:remote_ip= 2001:db8:0:f102::11 options:key=55 > > > > > > > > > > Output: > > > > > ovs-vsctl: Error detected while setting up 'gre6': could not add > > > > > network > > > > > device gre6 to ofproto (Address family not supported by protocol). > > > > > See > > > > > ovs-vswitchd log for details. > > > > > ovs-vsctl: The default log directory is "/var/log/openvswitch". > > > > > > > > > > In the log: > > > > > bridge|WARN|could not add network device gre6 to ofproto (Address > > > > > family > > > > > not supported by protocol) > > > > > > > > > > I notice that if I want to define a ip6gretap with “ip link”, there > > > > > is a > > > > > need to use “-6” option, to set the correct family. > > > > > > > > > > Is there a way to note the correct family (though I think should be > > > > > implicit by “ip6gre”)? Or maybe some other configuration? > > > > OVS doesn't have an "ip6gre" interface type. Just use "gre". > > > I see it does in lib/netdev-vport.c, line 1222. Isn't that ip6gre? > > Um, that's weird. We don't document it. I thought for sure that we > > tried to make our "regular" tunnels just accept both IPv4 and IPv6 > > addresses. > > Hmm, no documentation. Uh, that's not good. I'll check that.
Did you get a chance to take a look? It would be good to improve the documentation. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
