Out of curiosity, what form of Q-in-Q are you using? Specifically, what's the Ethertype and are you using hardware that directly supports it?
Thanks, --Justin On Jan 20, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: > There's been some discussion about adding some sort of double-tagging to OVS, > but we haven't finalized an approach yet. Double-tagging seems like such a > simple proposal, but it's not been well standardized. > > I haven't used ebtables much, but I don't think it will work with OVS. OVS > "steals" the bridge's kernel hooks to receive packets, so the two cannot be > run simultaneously. I believe ebtables depends on the bridge, and we haven't > implemented a compatibility layer to their bridge-netfilter architecture. > Our hope is that OVS will provide enough features so that ebtables won't be > needed. (There has been some discussion about upstreaming OVS, which would > allow a more elegant method of receiving packets and possibly allow both to > run simultaneously.) > > --Justin > > > On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:28 AM, DarkBls wrote: > >> Sorry was talking about "802.1QinQ" and not "802.1ad" >> >> >> ----- Message transféré ---- >> De : DarkBls <dark...@yahoo.com> >> À : discuss@openvswitch.org >> Envoyé le : Mer 20 Janvier 2010, 17 h 44 min 09 s >> Objet : IEEE 802.1ad >> >> Hi, >> >> is 802.1.ad (a.k.a double VLAN tag) supported by openVSwitch ? >> >> If not, if there a way with EBTable to remove the outter tag before beeing >> processed my OpenVSwitch ? >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> discuss mailing list >> discuss@openvswitch.org >> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
