On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Benoit ML <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Benoit ML <[email protected]> > Date: 2011/9/30 > Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Rhel 6.1 - openvswitch 1.2.2 - network > commutation between physical and virtual - doesn't work > To: Leland Vandervort <[email protected]> > > > This is my last test on openvswitch : > > Well I have : > - A vswitch with a physical port on eth4 > - An internal interface vi1 with tag = 3702 > > - A physical server with an interface eth0.3702 > - H3C configured to "permit" traffic trhoug > > Conclusion : > OpenVswitch send the packet trough eth4 with a tag 3702. (ARP Request) > The pysical receive the packet and respond (ARP Reply) > The packet arrive to the eth4 interface of openvswitch (so the H3C do the > job no ?) BUT without vlan tag (no tag view by tcpdump ... vlan offload ? > other ?)
This is due to vlan acceleration issues. Unfortunately, the be2net driver included with Linux 2.6.32 has known problems with vlans and Open vSwitch (and tcpdump). I thought that bnx2x should work but I don't know about the exact version included with RHEL 6.1. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
