ovs-vsctl doesn't sanity-check your input, since only ovs-vswitchd is going to
know what's supported. However, ovs-vswitchd did log a message complaining it
was invalid, which you found.
--Justin
On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:25 PM, maryam hanfi <mryamha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes it works for gre because gre is a supported tunnel type in OVS. But my
> question is, if a tunnel type is not support for example gre0 or mytunnel
> which are not valid types in OVS, then OVS should throw an error and should
> not add it to the configuration. But it is adding unsupported types in the
> configuration.
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote:
> Try type "gre", not "gre0".
>
> --Justin
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:49 PM, maryam hanfi <mryamha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using OVS-1.7.1 and I tried to add gre0 which is an unsupported type in
>> OVS. It gives me warning and complains about family not supported. But when
>> I run ovs-vsctl show command, it list gre0 as port with type gre0 in the
>> datapath. If type is unknown or protocol is not supported should it not
>> throw an error and fail to create the port? In this case it just gives the
>> warning and still adds port to the datapath.
>>
>> See output below
>>
>> [root@localhost openvswitch-1.7.1]# ovs-vsctl add-port br1 gre0 -- set
>> interface gre0 type=gre0 options:remote_ip=1.3.17.234
>> 2013-02-07T11:44:15Z|00016|netdev|WARN|could not create netdev gre0 of
>> unknown type gre0
>> 2013-02-07T11:44:15Z|00017|bridge|WARN|could not open network device gre0
>> (Address family not supported by protocol)
>> 2013-02-07T11:44:15Z|00018|bridge|WARN|bridge br1: using default bridge
>> Ethernet address 62:46:d1:07:b7:4e
>>
>> But ovs-vsctl shows that a port gre0 with type gre0 is been added to br1.
>>
>> [root@localhost openvswitch-1.7.1]# ovs-vsctl show
>> 35803b12-70e9-433a-a41d-23aecd7e2f74
>> Bridge "br1"
>> Port "gre0"
>> Interface "gre0"
>> type: "gre0"
>> options: {remote_ip="10.1.1.2"}
>> Port "br1"
>> Interface "br1"
>> type: internal
>> Bridge "br0"
>> Port "eth0"
>> Interface "eth0"
>> Port "br0"
>> Interface "br0"
>> type: internal
>>
>> Regards
>> Maryam
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