[ovs-dev] [ovn-controller-vtep V2 3/6] ovn: Add controller for VTEP switch.

[Alex Wang]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/05/2015 01:38 AM, Alex Wang wrote:
> > This commit lays down the foundation for a new controller in OVN, the
> > ovn-controller-vtep, for controlling the vtep enabled physical switches.
>
> What do you think about OVN NB db integration for this?  I see in the
> code how the gateways are treated like logical ports with special names.
>  Is that all that's needed?  It might be helpful to me at least to run
> through some examples of how this would be used.
>
>

Based on the discussion offline, we do not need to associate each physical
port vlan pair to a logical port.  Will send out a new series with
simplification.





> > Limitation:
> >
> > -  How to make controller-vtep connect to OVN_SB?
> >
> >      my understanding is that vtep should not know the location of ovnsb.
> >      but there is no "external_ids" column in vtep schema.  and the
> manager
> >      for vtep should be the controller-gw.  so, the implementation
> requires
> >      user to specify both vtep, and ovnsb location from command line.
>
> That seems fine to me.  Having to specify the OVN_SB db location doesn't
> seem like much of a burden.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>