Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] NEWS: Add known issues for v2.6.0.

2016-09-21 Thread Joe Stringer 
On 19 September 2016 at 11:18, Ben Pfaff  wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 04:26:05PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer 
>
> ...
>
>> + * When using the openvswitch module distributed with OVS against kernel
>> +   versions 4.4-4.6, the openvswitch module cannot be loaded or used at 
>> the
>> +   same time as "ip_gre".
>
> Would you mind writing "4.4 to 4.6" instead of "4.4-4.6"?  There are
> kernel versions with hyphens in them (even cited later in your note) and
> at first this looked like a single version to me.
>
> The following is an editorial ack; I can't speak for this note
> technically.
>
> Acked-by: Ben Pfaff 

Thanks for the feedback, I made those adjustments and pushed to master
and branch-2.6.
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Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] NEWS: Add known issues for v2.6.0.

2016-09-19 Thread Ben Pfaff 
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 04:26:05PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer 

...

> + * When using the openvswitch module distributed with OVS against kernel
> +   versions 4.4-4.6, the openvswitch module cannot be loaded or used at 
> the
> +   same time as "ip_gre".

Would you mind writing "4.4 to 4.6" instead of "4.4-4.6"?  There are
kernel versions with hyphens in them (even cited later in your note) and
at first this looked like a single version to me.

The following is an editorial ack; I can't speak for this note
technically.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff 
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Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] NEWS: Add known issues for v2.6.0.

2016-09-15 Thread pravin shelar 
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Joe Stringer  wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer 
> ---
> Pravin, does the GRE note look correct?
> ---
>  NEWS | 19 +++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 8c78b3676cf3..19570b96816f 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -124,6 +124,25 @@ v2.6.0 - xx xxx 
> - Add 'mtu_request' column to the Interface table. It can be used to
>   configure the MTU of the ports.
>
> +Known issues:
> +   - Using openvswitch module in conjunction with upstream Linux tunnels:
> + * When using the openvswitch module distributed with OVS against kernel
> +   versions 4.4-4.6, the openvswitch module cannot be loaded or used at 
> the
> +   same time as "ip_gre".

ip-gre park looks good to me.

> +   - Conntrack FTP ALGs: When using the openvswitch module distributed with
> + OVS, particular Linux distribution kernels versions may provide 
> diminished
> + functionality. This typically affects active FTP data connections when
> + using "actions=ct(alg=ftp),..." in flow tables. Specifically:
> + * Centos 7.1 kernels (3.10.0-2xx) kernels are unable to correctly set
> +   up expectations for FTP data connections in multiple zones,
> +   eg "actions=ct(zone=1,alg=ftp),ct(zone=2,alg=ftp),...". Executing the
> +   "ct" action for subsequent data connections may fail to determine that
> +   the data connection is "related" to an existing connection.
> + * Centos 7.2 kernels (3.10.0-3xx) kernels may not establish FTP ALG 
> state
> +   correctly for NATed connections. As a result, flows that perform NAT,
> +   eg "actions=ct(nat,ftp=alg,table=1),..." may fail to NAT the packet,
> +   and will populate the "ct_state=inv" bit in the flow.
> +
>
>  v2.5.0 - 26 Feb 2016
>  -
> --
> 2.9.3
>
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