<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello,</div><div>I
have a setup of virtual machines and wherein my virtual switch (OVS)
takes care of switching locally and it uses the network for talking to
VM's outside the server (like a VEB scenario I guess). I want Netlink
messages to be sent to LLDPAD. I understand that i had to modify the XML
files and start the VM. But, i see from the XML that it supports only
VEPA, not VEB.<br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">But,
irrespective of VEB or VEPA, those VM information should be known to
the upstream switch through VDP. 802.1QBG seem to support this (both
VEPA and VEB)</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/private/bg-drafts/d2/802-1qbg-d2-2.pdf <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">But, for VEB, no net link messages are sent by libvirt. Why is that?<br><br>From the XML example, I see that:<br><br><span style="font-style:italic;"><interface type=’direct’><br><mac address=’d0:0f:d0:0f:02:01’/><br><br><source dev=’eth2.20’ mode=’vepa’/><br><source
network=’default’/><br><br><virtualport
type=’802.1Qbg’><br><parameters<br>managerid=’12’<br>typeid=’0x123456’<br>typeidversion=’1’<br>instanceid=’09b00c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d847aa05191b’<br>/><br><br></virtualport></span><br><br>I
tried different combinations by changing the interface type to bridge
and and trying Qbg as in below, I find that it doesn't send a Netlink
message to LLDPAD. There's no "mode=veb".</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"> <span style="font-style:italic;"> </controller><br> <interface type='bridge'><br> <mac
address='00:54:00:4e:46:04'/><br> <source bridge='xml_br'/><br> <virtualport type='802.1Qbg'><br> <parameters managerid='12' typeid='1193046' typeidversion='1' instanceid='09b00c53-8b5c-4eeb-8f00-d847aa05191b'/><br> </virtualport><br> <target dev='tap_xml'/><br> <model type='virtio'/><br> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/><br> </interface></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;
font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">How do i get this to work? Is this a limitation?</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Thanks,</div>KP</div></body></html>