Re: [Xen-API] XCP 1.1 DDK for OVS Build

[Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

brooks@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> That helped us track down another issue we were seeing where
> the VM VLAN traffic wasn't being passed to the VMs.  That
> turned out to be a problem with the BMC sharing one of the
> Ethernet ports.  For some reason the driver for the BMC or for
> the Broadcom chipset is munging the VLAN packets, untagged
> packets are passed up the stack without any issue, but tagged
> packets are being munged.  Since I have a working XCP 1.1 DDK I
> was able to download the latest Broadcom driver and compile and
> install it.  Unfortunately it didn't help.  The only resolution
> was to install a PCIe card and move the VM VLAN traffic.

OVS 1.4 adds a feature called "VLAN splinters" that, if you
enable it on the problematic NIC, may allow you to use it with
Open vSwitch.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
http://benpfaff.org

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