Is there a way to stop adding port if tunnel type is not supported.
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Justin Pettit <jpet...@nicira.com> wrote:
> 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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> >
>
>
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