Hi all,

after reading this, I have a question according to this thread. I have done some tests with patch ports and failed, too. I just want to use another, let's say superior bridge, to establish a connection to every bridge configured on the host. The connection port to this superior bridge is configured as a mirror port. This superior bridge connects to a monitoring system, too, which captures all relevant traffic receiving on the connected interfaces. I just want to establish a capture system, which is capable to mirror all traffic as fast as possible.

I tried veth-ports via

ip link add veth type veth peer name veth1
ip link set veth0 up
ip link set veth1 up
ovs-vsctl add-port br0 veth0
ovs-vsctl add-port br1 veth1
and a configured mirror,

but they failed to, I just saw broadcast traffic on the mirroring system. Do veth ports support mirroring? sry, Im not a programmer, so I am not able to read (and understand) the relevant code.

Thx
Daniel


Hi all,

I'm working on a project where I need to capture packets going through OVS
instances.  I ran into strange behavior with 2.4 where I was only seeing
the packets being received by some ports, not those sent.  Also the bridges
started behaving strangely when I added mirrors to patch ports, so I
upgraded to 2.5.

The good news with 2.5 is that on some interfaces I am now seeing packets
in both directions, however on OvsPatch interfaces I am now seeing no
packets at all.  Was there a change introduced that disables mirroring
patch ports?  OvsVxlan seem to work fine...

Thanks in advance.  I can provide more details if necessary but I thought
I'd start with a high-level question.
Patch ports don't support mirroring, although we'd accept code changes
to fix that.
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