[ovs-dev] VEPA support in OVS

[Kyle Mestery (kmestery)]

On Nov 30, 2013, at 12:46 AM, jerry <jerry.lilijun at huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone have a plan to support for VEPA in OVS?
> 
> In my opinion, we can achieve such function using two methods:
> 1) Add flow rules on each VM port to lead traffic to physical port.
> 2) Add a port type for physical port and do MAC-learning on VM ports.
> 
> The two both method need to fix the problem that how to avoid sending multicast packets
> from physical port to the VM port which is this packets' original source port.
> 
Why would you want to implement VEPA in OVS instead of using
something like lldpad [1] which already implements VEPA (or at
least portions of it)? I don't think adding VEPA support into OVS
makes as much sense as using lldpad.

Thanks,
Kyle

[1] http://www.open-lldp.org/

> Best regards,
> Jerry
> 
> 
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