[ovs-dev] VXLAN Patches

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:03:05AM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:36 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 12:07:40AM -0800, Justin Pettit wrote:
> >> On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:02 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> >> 
> >>> I notices that there is a proposal for L3 tunnelling as part of
> >>> Open Flow 1.2. I am wondering if anyone knows how likely it is
> >>> that an implementation of VXLAN would satisfy the L3 portion
> >>> of that proposal.
> >>> 
> >>> http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_1_2_proposal
> >> 
> >> OpenFlow 1.2 has been finalized, but it really doesn't address tunneling any more than the previous OpenFlow standards.  There are active discussions about addressing tunneling in the near future, though.
> > 
> > Is there a document available other that the Wiki?
> 
> That wiki article was meant to be suggestions about what to consider
> for OpenFlow 1.2.  Since that was written, development of OpenFlow
> has moved to the ONF, so it's badly out of date.  Here's a
> description of the 1.2 release on the ONF website:
> 
> 	https://www.opennetworking.org/1dot2-and-pending
> 
> I don't have an update on when the 1.2 spec will be publicly released.

However, Midokura is an ONF member so presumably Simon can just clone
git at github.com:OpenNetworkingFoundation/extensibility (after asking
the right person to be added to that group) then check out spec1.2 and
run "make" in the of-spec directory.