Description of problem: When trying to create a GRE tunnel between two ovs-vswitchd, no GRE traffic is generated, GRE interface seems to be disabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openvswitch-1.4.0-5.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: static Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install openvswtich 2. service openvswitch start 3. ovs-vsctl add-br br0 4. ovs-vsctl \ -- --id=@i create interface name=gre0 type=gre \ options="remote_ip=192.168.122.201,local_ip=192.168.122.202,key=1" \ -- --id=@p create port name=gre0 interfaces=[@i] \ -- add bridge br0 ports @p Actual results: May 12 17:32:55|00032|dpif|WARN|system@br0: failed to add gre0 as port: Address family not supported by protocol May 12 17:32:55|00033|bridge|WARN|gre0 port has no interfaces, dropping May 12 17:32:55|00034|bridge|INFO|destroyed port gre0 on bridge br0 May 12 17:32:55|00035|bridge|WARN|bridge br0: using default bridge Ethernet address 3a:46:68:e4:a2:4d Kernel Gre module is not loaded since ovs uses its own implementation. Expected results: gre interface/port in ovs should be working Additional info: tcpdump shows no GRE traffic
Hello? I'm using openvswitch for a couple of years on RHEL and it's the first time I get this error. Any idea?
Anyone here?
The Fedora Open vSwitch kernel module is directly from upstream Linux which does not (yet) support tunnelling mode.