[ovs-dev] DHCP responder in OVN

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Oct 13 16:46:42 UTC 2015


On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:13:11PM +0530, Babu Shanmugam wrote:
> Me and Numan are working to bring up the DHCP responder in OVN. We explored
> towards setting up flow entries to respond to DHCP discover and DHCP request
> messages. We end up learning that Openflow does not have provision to do
> that.
> Looks like, the only way to do that is through packet-in. From our
> understanding the packet-in listener is not present in OVN controller.
> Please correct us if our understanding is wrong. If so, is anyone already
> working on the packet-in listener?

Your conclusions are right.

I don't know of anyone working on a packet-in listener in OVN.



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