[ovs-dev] ovn: scope for first iteration

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 23:12:33 UTC 2015


On 03/27/2015 06:26 PM, Justin Pettit wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> We've discussed wanting to have something to demo by the OpenStack
>> Summit in Vancouver (May 18-22), which I think is a fantastic goal.  I
>> wanted to clarify the scope of this first target.
>>
>> So far in the work I've been doing, I've only been looking at the L2
>> parts (logical switches and logical ports).  What would you all think of
>> sticking with that for the first iteration?  We can use the DHCP and L3
>> agents from Neutron for now.
>>
>> I've done some looking at the L3 parts of the current design, and I
>> think there's some more needed.  It would be nice to just make L2 work
>> and come back to it.
> 
> Yes, we're in complete agreement.  This is what Ben and I had been
> planning.  Thanks for bringing it up since it hadn't been properly
> conveyed before.  Our current thinking is that we'll get L2
> connectivity working for the demo with a stretch goal of hardware
> VTEP support.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to think through the L3 implications yet, so I
> don't have much to add to the questions you've raised.  I'll leave
> those to Ben in case he's given them any thought.

Great, thanks!  If we're focused on L2 for now, I'm in no hurry to
answer them.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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