Re: [ovs-discuss] VLAN, STP and physical switch

2012-07-05 Thread Ethan Jackson
The cisco is using PVST (Per VLAN Spanning Tree), while OVS only supports basic 802.1d. You will either have to configure the cisco to use 802.1d, or figure out if PVST has a compatibility mode. Or, of course, you could simply not build a loop thus making spanning tree unnecessary. In your diagr

[ovs-discuss] VLAN, STP and physical switch

2012-07-05 Thread Maxime Brun
Hi, I am trying to interconnect several VMs and physical server, using ovs and physicals switches. An example : 2 ovs bridge (on separate physical server, interconnected with gre) with each 2 virtual interface (vm) and a vlan interface (eth1.140) ; both eth1 are directly connected to a physical