[ovs-dev] VXLAN Patches

[Simon Horman]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:06:58AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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 has moved to the ONF, so it's badly out of date.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.

Thanks, I will talk to Midokura about that.