[ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/3] auto-attach: Add support for IETF Auto Attach standard

[Flynn, Dennis R (Dennis)]

Our initial goal is to make OVS an auto attach client.

We are watching with great interest the progress of the recently submitted 802.1ah (PBB) patch.
PBB is the datapath on top of which the SPB control plane is layered and thus could lay the groundwork for adding auto attach server support to OVS.

Auto attach also defines the notion of an auto attach proxy which aggregates auto attach clients.
This could be the logical next step for auto attach within OVS.

Regards,
Dennis





-----Original Message-----
From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at openvswitch.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 6:15 PM
To: Ludovic Beliveau
Cc: dev at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH 0/3] auto-attach: Add support for IETF Auto Attach standard

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Ludovic Beliveau wrote:
> This patch sequence provides OVS support for the IETF Auto-Attach SPBM 
> draft standard. This standard describes a compact method of using IEEE 
> 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) together with a IEEE 
> 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) network to automatically attach 
> network devices to individual services in a SPB network.  The intent 
> here is to allow network applications and devices using OVS to be able 
> to easily take advantage of features offered by industry standard SPB 
> networks.  Details of the Auto-Attach standard can be found here.
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-unbehagen-lldp-spb-00
> 
> We have modified the OVS source code to integrate basic LLDP protocol 
> support as required to implement Auto-Attach (AA).  We modeled our 
> LLDP code changes after other protocols currently supported by OVS 
> (BFD, CFM, etc.).  We have chosen to base this OVS LLDP work on the 
> open source LLDPD project headed by Vincent Bernat.  Details of the LLDPD project can be found here.

Is the goal to make OVS into an auto-attach client or server or both?
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