How are you verifying the outbound frames don't have tags? (If you are sniffing on a virtual or physical port that is not a trunk port (ie tagged), your sniffer won't see them.)
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:54 PM, David V. Cloud <david.v.cl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > I have gone through the ovs-vswitchd and ovs-vswitchd.conf man pages. I > couldn't find anything similar to Virtual Switch Tagging (VST mode) in > VMware ESX. Basically, "the virtual switch port group tags all outbound > frames and removes tags for all inbound frames." I have tried 'Untagged VLAN > Ports'. Although, similar, this is different from VST mode. It will only > receive frames with 802.1Q headers of specified VID. However, the outbound > frames are untagged. I have verify the above statement using two KVM virtual > machines together with usermode open vswitch (open vswitch kernel module > won't compile on 2.6.32.8 Linux kernel. > > So, I am wondering if I can implement something similar to VST mode on open > vswitch? Correct me if I have any misunderstanding about VLAN support in > open vswitch. > > p.s. The VST mode and some other VLAN features are documented at > http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_vlan_wp.pdf > > > Thanks, > ~D > > > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > discuss@openvswitch.org > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org > > -- -andrew
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