Re: [ovs-discuss] Can't get ofport info with userspace datapath

2013-03-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:58:51PM +0800, Hongwei Fu wrote: > We're trying to setup OVS1.4.0 within lxc. > I'm trying to do this, > ovs-vsctl add-br br0 > ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre GRE and other tunneling mechanisms o

[ovs-discuss] Can't get ofport info with userspace datapath

2013-03-27 Thread Hongwei Fu
Hi, We're trying to setup OVS1.4.0 within lxc. I'm trying to do this, ovs-vsctl add-br br0 ovs-vsctl set bridge br0 datapath_type=netdev ovs-vsctl add-port br0 gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre options:remote_ip=1.2.3.4 ovs-vsctl get Interface gre0 ofport I get [] When I tried this on a machine u

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Ramana Reddy
Once we mapped the virtual NIC to particular VM, the OVS does not come into the process( OVS usually installed in Hypervisor). All packets are directly go through the VNIC and through the outside world. This is case with SFC ( SR-IOV) or Intel (IO-MMU) 10Gb cards. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:51

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote: > > On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize >>> offloading features of the Eth

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Kyle Mestery (kmestery)
On Mar 27, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize >> offloading features of the Ethernet adapter I read somewhere... >> >> - What features are those? Is it

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Atam
Jesse, thanks a lot for the insights, Kind regards, Atam On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize > > offloading features of the Ethernet adap

Re: [ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Atam wrote: > Hi all, > > OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize > offloading features of the Ethernet adapter I read somewhere... > > - What features are those? Is it desirable to invest in 10GB adapters with > full TCP chimney s

[ovs-discuss] Best 10GB adapter for offloading OVS

2013-03-27 Thread Atam
Hi all, OVS is a software solution switch as i understand. It is able to utilize offloading features of the Ethernet adapter I read somewhere... - What features are those? Is it desirable to invest in 10GB adapters with full TCP chimney support like Emulex (OCe11102) or Broadcom (57810S) ? Or is

Re: [ovs-discuss] More than one MAC address behind a port

2013-03-27 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Daniel Dehennin wrote: > Jesse Gross writes: > > > [...] > >> It's difficult to read your diagram but isn't vnet16 (where DHCP >> responses are still seen) after OVS? > > Sorry, I'm not sure to understand your question: > > - vnet16 is the interface of the DHCP s

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovsdb jsonrpc: referential integrity

2013-03-27 Thread Boris Tobotras
Just in case anybody else will be interested -- what I forgot is to update "bridges" in "Open_vSwitch" table with reference to freshly created bridge. On 03/27/2013 11:25 AM, Boris Tobotras wrote: Looks like I'm almost there: me>ovsdb: {"method":"transact","params":["Open_vSwitch",{"uuid-na

Re: [ovs-discuss] More than one MAC address behind a port

2013-03-27 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Jesse Gross writes: [...] > It's difficult to read your diagram but isn't vnet16 (where DHCP > responses are still seen) after OVS? Sorry, I'm not sure to understand your question: - vnet16 is the interface of the DHCP server - isw is the name of the Open vSwitch - vnet18 is the interface o

Re: [ovs-discuss] ovsdb jsonrpc: referential integrity

2013-03-27 Thread Boris Tobotras
Hi Ben, On 03/26/2013 08:45 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: You can't use hard-coded uuids to refer to new rows, because you cannot know what the uuid of a new row is. Use a named-uuid. Looks like I'm almost there: me>ovsdb: {"method":"transact","params":["Open_vSwitch",{"uuid-name":"paci1faced","op"