[ovs-discuss] Question regarding GRE reported interface speed

2012-10-01 Thread Jeff Welsch
Hello all, I have a question regarding the interface speed of GRE tunnels. I have created a GRE tunnel between two instances of OVS and am able to pass traffic through the tunnel. The command used to configure the tunnel(s) was: ovs-vsctl add-port br0 gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre opti

Re: [ovs-discuss] Question regarding GRE reported interface speed

2012-10-01 Thread Jeff Welsch
Excellent, thanks for the quick response. Jeff On Oct 1, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 02:15:20PM -0700, Jeff Welsch wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have a question regarding the interface speed of GRE tunnels. I have >> created a GRE t

[ovs-discuss] Over-mtu packets in GRE tunnel

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Welsch
Hello, When forwarding traffic through a GRE tunnel I am receiving error messages about over-mtu packets: openvswitch: br0: dropped over-mtu packet: 1810 > 1500. The packet size varies and on my Linux console I am receiving notification that net_ratelimit is suppressing callbacks of a large am

Re: [ovs-discuss] Over-mtu packets in GRE tunnel

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Welsch
should I be using that? Then I suppose I could change the mtu for the gre0 interface in the kernel. Jeff On Oct 3, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jeff Welsch wrote: >> Hello, >> >> When forwarding traffic through a GRE tunnel

Re: [ovs-discuss] Over-mtu packets in GRE tunnel

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Welsch
version and ovs build for GRE that performs best? I am also trying to rebuild with 2.6.32 (the README mentioned that was the version most tested against) along with 1.7.1 to compare. On Oct 3, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Jeff Welsch wrote: >&

Re: [ovs-discuss] Over-mtu packets in GRE tunnel

2012-10-03 Thread Jeff Welsch
issue. Thanks for your pointers. Jeff On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Jeff Welsch wrote: >> Here is the relevant output from modinfo: >> >> filename: ./openvswitch.ko >> version:1.8.90 >> license:

[ovs-discuss] DPID changed when deleting a port

2012-10-30 Thread Jeff Welsch
Hello, I was prepared to write this email with examples of how to reproduce the issue, yet when I tried to do so I was unable. However, I do have the output of the original case that triggered the process in my terminal session so will report it regardless. However, perhaps this should just

[ovs-discuss] GRE naming limitations?

2013-01-02 Thread Jeff Welsch
Hello, I am having an odd issue creating GRE tunnels and was hoping someone might have some insight. I am adding a tunnel, type GRE, named tunnel_0123456789 and receiving this message in the log files: 2013-01-02T22:37:58Z|01668|netlink_socket|DBG|nl_sock_transact_multiple__ (Success): nl(len

[ovs-discuss] Selecting egress interface for GRE tunnel

2013-01-07 Thread Jeff Welsch
Hello, Is there a way to specify the egress interface for a GRE tunnel? I am matching flows and sending them to a tunnel using an output action. This works fine when my remote IP is on eth0, but I would like to send some tunnels out through eth1, depending on their destination address. I am

Re: [ovs-discuss] Selecting egress interface for GRE tunnel

2013-01-08 Thread Jeff Welsch
max OFPT_GET_CONFIG_REPLY (xid=0x3): frags=normal miss_send_len=0 NXST_FLOW reply (xid=0x4): cookie=0x0, duration=198.248s, table=0, n_packets=350795, n_bytes=305734399, idle_age=1, in_port=1 actions=output:4 > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Jeff Welsch wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is th