[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next 4/4] net: Add Open vSwitch kernel components.
Chris Wright
chrisw at sous-sol.org
Wed Nov 23 05:37:17 UTC 2011
* John Fastabend (john.r.fastabend at intel.com) wrote:
> He is pushing and popping entire tags off 802.1Q for now but
> you can easily imagine MPLS tags and all sorts of other things
> people will _need_.
Right, already doing some generic encap/decap for tunnelling.
> Do we want tc and likely the skbedit action to explode into a
> packet mangling tool? Would it make sense to plug into ebtables
> perhaps with a new family, NFPROTO_OPENFLOW or even on the
> existing NFPROTO_BRIDGE.
Of course, ovs is not limited to layer2 switching.
> Although doing it with classifiers and more actions would flush
> out that TODO in act_mirred, and get us an mq_ingress among
> other things.
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