[ovs-dev] Some questions about DPDK+OVS

[Pravin Shelar]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 11:34:05AM +0800, lin wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 04:16:25PM +0800, lin wrote:
>> > > 1.DPDK+OVS take advantage of OVS's user space bridge to do packet
>> > > forwarding, are there any plans to support user space vxlan tunneling?
>> >
>> > Already supported, please read README-native-tunneling.md.
>> >
>> Thanks Ben, I read the document, a little confuse about the configuration.
>> Why a physical bridge is needed? And is int-br with datapath_type "netdev"
>> or "system"?
>
Yes, both bridges needs to be netdev type.

Physical bridge is required so that we can use kernel networking stack
for routing and arp resolution.