[ovs-dev] 答复: VEPA support in OVS

Qianhuibin (Huibin QIAN, Euler) qianhuibin at huawei.com
Mon Dec 2 06:07:20 UTC 2013


这个人是思科的啊;)

用了思科的邮箱。

-----邮件原件-----
发件人: Kyle Mestery (kmestery) [mailto:kmestery at cisco.com] 
发送时间: 2013年12月2日 10:54
收件人: Lilijun (Jerry)
抄送: <dev at openvswitch.org>; Qianhuibin (Huibin QIAN, Euler); Zhbzg
主题: Re: [ovs-dev] VEPA support in OVS

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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