[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/4] ofproto-dpif: add support for layer 3 ports

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Nov 15 22:36:11 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Lorand Jakab wrote:
> Add member is_layer3 to struct ofport_dpif to mark layer 3 ports.  Set
> it to "true" for the only layer 3 port we support for now: lisp.
> 
> Additionally, prevent flooding to layer 3 ports.  A later patch will
> also prevent MAC learning.
> 
> This patch is useful and could be applied even without the rest of the
> layer 3 patches, since flooding packets to lisp ports shouldn't happen
> anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lorand Jakab <lojakab at cisco.com>

This seems reasonable.  Can you document the behavior somewhere?
Maybe in vswitch.xml wherever it describes LISP ports.



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