Re: [ovs-discuss] At specifying slowpath when using Open vSwitch, cannot start virtual machine.

2013-08-14 Thread ashish yadav
Hi Ben, user space datapath is feature in OVS & I want to test that. Thanks Ashish On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Why do you want to use the user space datapath? > On Aug 13, 2013 11:16 PM, "ashish yadav" wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> datapath_type=netdev is used for userspace

Re: [ovs-discuss] How many GRE Ports can an OVS bridge have?

2013-08-14 Thread Dmita Levy
I'm testing OVS 1.04 on a Virtualbox VM running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with 1024 MB of RAM and I have to say that after 780 GRE port additions OVS shows no signs of slow down. We were initially trying to create a kind of GRE tunnel convergence between hosts when the network is first brought online where

Re: [ovs-discuss] FW: OVS CAM-Table

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Please don't drop the mailing list. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 04:55:43AM +0300, tyler derden wrote: > LOL...r u in?? I don't know what that means. > Actually i am working on a comparison between a legacy switch and an > openflow switch regarding cam-table(mac-address to switch port > mapping),on

Re: [ovs-discuss] How many GRE Ports can an OVS bridge have?

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:28:05PM -0400, Dmita Levy wrote: > Our research meeting today ended on the question of whether or not it would > be possible or system breaking to tunnel to a large number of hosts using > OVS. So I threw my JSON RPC tunnel creator into a loop and around 234 on > bridge0

[ovs-discuss] How many GRE Ports can an OVS bridge have?

2013-08-14 Thread Dmita Levy
Hello, Our research meeting today ended on the question of whether or not it would be possible or system breaking to tunnel to a large number of hosts using OVS. So I threw my JSON RPC tunnel creator into a loop and around 234 on bridge0 decided to stop. That being said I noticed with the ovs-vsct

Re: [ovs-discuss] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic when adding port

2013-08-14 Thread Pravin Shelar
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Andrei Andone wrote: > On 08/14/2013 07:20 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Andrei Andone < > andrei.and...@softvision.ro> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I've been struggling with my previous problem (dhcp issue) trying to fix >> it. >> Does

[ovs-discuss] CPU Measurement on Openvswitch

2013-08-14 Thread Victor Torres
Hello, I'm sorry if this was already asked, but I couldn't manage to find it elsewhere. I would like to measure OpenVSwitch's CPU consumption in various scenarios, but it seems rather difficult due to the kernel implementations. Does anyone have any advice on this? Thanks in advance! Victor T.

Re: [ovs-discuss] FW: OVS CAM-Table

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:53:49PM +0300, tyler derden wrote: > Hi,I don't think there is a cam table for OVS since its a software > switch, so the mac-address to port mapping will be saved in the a > db-table.if this is correct, what is the alternative to checking the > cam-table size in ovs switc

[ovs-discuss] FW: OVS CAM-Table

2013-08-14 Thread tyler derden
From: serb...@hotmail.com To: discuss@openvswitch.org Subject: OVS CAM-Table Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:47:51 +0300 Hi,I don't think there is a cam table for OVS since its a software switch, so the mac-address to port mapping will be saved in the a db-table.if this is correct, what is the al

Re: [ovs-discuss] Test Suit for traffic-control (QoS Rate-Limiting) in OVS

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:22:26PM +0530, ashish yadav wrote: > I am looking for test suite( test cases) for traffic-control (QoS > Rate-Limiting) in OVS . > It may include test cases with VLAN , bond etc interface also. OVS does not include traffic control tests, because it delegates QoS to the u

Re: [ovs-discuss] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic when adding port

2013-08-14 Thread Andrei Andone
On 08/14/2013 07:20 PM, Jesse Gross wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Andrei Andone mailto:andrei.and...@softvision.ro>> wrote: Hello, I've been struggling with my previous problem (dhcp issue) trying to fix it. Does anyone else use CentOS? I managed to get the kerne

Re: [ovs-discuss] DHCP not working on bridge

2013-08-14 Thread Gurucharan Shetty
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Andrei Andone wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm not sure what I am doing wrong and I'm running out of ideas (patience > too). > > I wanted to bridge my eth0 with ovs (yes, I read the F.A.Q. and did all > that and it didn't work). > I also tried the /etc/sysconfig/networ

Re: [ovs-discuss] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic when adding port

2013-08-14 Thread Jesse Gross
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Andrei Andone wrote: > Hello, > > I've been struggling with my previous problem (dhcp issue) trying to fix > it. > Does anyone else use CentOS? > > I managed to get the kernel to crash everytime I try to add eth0 port to a > bridge. > Do you have a stack trace, s

Re: [ovs-discuss] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic when adding port

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:34:48PM +0300, Andrei Andone wrote: > 1. get a git clone and switch to branch-1.12 (works with latest master too) "master" is a better choice. We are not going to release 1.12; instead we are planning to branch 2.0 from master soon. (Someone else will have to figure ou

[ovs-discuss] CentOS 6.4 kernel panic when adding port

2013-08-14 Thread Andrei Andone
Hello, I've been struggling with my previous problem (dhcp issue) trying to fix it. Does anyone else use CentOS? I managed to get the kernel to crash everytime I try to add eth0 port to a bridge. _Steps to reproduce_: 1. get a git clone and switch to branch-1.12 (works with latest master too

Re: [ovs-discuss] At specifying slowpath when using Open vSwitch, cannot start virtual machine.

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Why do you want to use the user space datapath? On Aug 13, 2013 11:16 PM, "ashish yadav" wrote: > Hi, > > datapath_type=netdev is used for userspace datapath . > > Thanks > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > >> Why do you want to use datapath_type=netdev? >> >> On Wed, Aug

Re: [ovs-discuss] DHCP not working on bridge

2013-08-14 Thread Andrei Andone
On 08/14/2013 11:11 AM, Andrei Andone wrote: Hello all, I'm not sure what I am doing wrong and I'm running out of ideas (patience too). I wanted to bridge my eth0 with ovs (yes, I read the F.A.Q. and did all that and it didn't work). I also tried the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0

Re: [ovs-discuss] Output a Packet From Its Input Port

2013-08-14 Thread Jeremias Blendin
Hi Volkan, if you want to send out a packet through its input port, you need to specify that with a special port number: OF Switch Specification 1.0, p. 18: OFPP_IN_PORT= 0xfff8, /* Send the packet out the input port. This virtual port must be explicitly

[ovs-discuss] Output a Packet From Its Input Port

2013-08-14 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, I have a simple topology as follows: *s1* [p2] -- [p2] *s2* [p1][p2] | | *h1* *h2* I push a flow to s2 to output every packet incoming from p2 to p2 itself again: $ ovs-ofctl add-flow s2 in_port=2,actions=output:2 When I start to p

[ovs-discuss] DHCP not working on bridge

2013-08-14 Thread Andrei Andone
Hello all, I'm not sure what I am doing wrong and I'm running out of ideas (patience too). I wanted to bridge my eth0 with ovs (yes, I read the F.A.Q. and did all that and it didn't work). I also tried the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 version (I am running CentOS 6.3) and still d

Re: [ovs-discuss] Test Suit for traffic-control (QoS Rate-Limiting) in OVS

2013-08-14 Thread ashish yadav
Hi, I am looking following test cases under OVS: a. Traffic shaping in OVS under various interface like VLAN, BOND etc. b. Traffic policing in OVS under various interface like VLAN, BOND etc. Thanks On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM, ashish yadav wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for test suite( t