On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:00:28AM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2016 14:29:01 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > The second option does seem rather tempting although I'm not sure > > that it actually plays out in the access-port scenario at this time. > > We support gre ports to be access ports currently. With conversion to > ipgre, this needs to continue working. It's no problem for frames with > the Ethernet header but now we have a situation where a port is tagged, > thus the user expects that packets received on that port will behave > accordingly. I don't think we can make some packets honor this and some > ignore this; and we can't disallow gre to be an access port. > > How do you plan to solve this? By user space always pushing an ethernet > header before push_vlan?
Yes. That is my understanding of how OvS currently handles access ports but I have a feeling that either I am mistaken or that you are referring to a slightly different scenario.
