Hi,

I know trunk with multiple vlan make sense thats why i have written I can
take more vlan in this list.

if I will take vlan 2,3 both in below mentioned set-upin trunks then also
reply is not coming.

is that like only br0 can be trunk port ,VMs port can not work as trunk
port.

-Sonny

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ansis Atteka <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>  On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:17 PM, sonny sonny <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I think you are not getting my question.Sorry for the unclear query.
>>
>> I am saying if my set-up is following then why I am not getting reply of
>> ping request, please let me know where I am wrong in this setup instead of
>> changing this in other way. (commands used mentioned in first mail below)
>>
>>               VM1-------vnet0==OVS==vnet1------VM2
>>
>> now I have made vnet0 and vnet1 as trunk port with vlan 2( I can give
>> more vlan also in this list) , br0 is trunk by default as per OVS feature.
>> now when I am sending tag 2 ping request from VM1 by traffic generator
>> then vnet0 should accept this because it is trunk for vlan 2,this ping
>> request is receiving on VM2 (because vnet1 is also trunking vlan 2) but no
>> ping reply is creating on vnet1 to send to vnet0.
>>
> I believe you are incorrectly understanding what is "access port" and what
> is "trunk port". I would suggest reading
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunking#VLANs to understand the analogy
> between trunk port (thick cable that contain many wires) and access ports
> (a single wire in that thick cable).
>
> By the way trunk ports are called that way, because those thick cables
> simply resemble elephant trunk (or nose) in older day telephony.
>
> When you say that you want port with trunks=2, I think that what you
> actually want to accomplish is to use access ports with tag=2 (as Ben
> already suggested)? It does not make sense for me to use trunk port with
> vlan_tag=2 unless you have imagined something like nested VLANs?
>
>
>> -Sonny
>>  On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> If you want a trunk port to accept untagged packets then include VLAN 0
>>> in the set of trunks.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 08:51:17AM +0530, sonny sonny wrote:
>>> > Thanks for your quick response.
>>> >
>>> > "tag" is working ,commands you have given I have already used and that
>>> > works.
>>> > But I want to work with trunk ports now and if port is trunk with vlan
>>> 2 (
>>> > we can specify particular vlan also to a trunk port)  then untagged
>>> > packet/other vlan tag packet to trunk port will  drop.
>>> >
>>> > so If I am sending same vlan tag packet (vlan 2)  then why ping reply
>>> is
>>> > not coming.
>>> > how trunk with "particular vlan" specified will work in OVS? Am I
>>> missing
>>> > anything?
>>> >
>>> > -Sonny
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >  On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 03:09:12PM +0530, sonny sonny wrote:
>>> > > > Hi All,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I am using OVS 1.2.2 and have one OVS machine with two VMs.
>>> > > > Following commands I have used -
>>> > > >
>>> > > >  Create an OVS bridge:
>>> > > >  ovs-vsctl add-br br0
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Add eth0 to the bridge
>>> > > > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Add VM1 as an “trunk port” on VLAN 2:
>>> > > > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vnet0 trunks=2
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Add VM2 on VLAN 2:
>>> > > > ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vnet1 trunks=2
>>> > > >
>>> > > > now when I am sending tag 2 ping request packet from VM1 to VM2 (
>>> by
>>> > > > traffic generator) , then ping reply is not coming.
>>> > > > Please correct me where I am wrong.
>>> > >
>>> > > If you add those as trunk ports, then the VMs have to add the tags
>>> > > themselves.  Did you do this?  It involves the "vconfig" utility (or
>>> > > "ip link add link type vlan").
>>> > >
>>> > > If you want OVS to automatically tag those packets, then you want
>>> > > access ports instead.  Here are the commands that you would use:
>>> > >        ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vnet0 tag=2
>>> > >        ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vnet1 tag=2
>>> > >
>>>
>>
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