[ovs-dev] will ovn support dynamic routing protocol

[Ben Pfaff]

I'm having trouble understanding what's going on.  The diagram you show,
and the text below, talks about static routing.  Where does dynamic
routing come in?

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:46:24PM +0800, Shi Xin Ruan wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> 
> Let me give example by neutron router because I am not very clear how OVN
> routing works.
> In neutron router, qg-xx is a interface connect to external network, qr-xx
> is interface to connect to neutron network.
> 
> But for destination, we want to they will not route to qr-xx interface, but
> route to some qr-xx interface.
> For example, VPNaas will install static routes in neutron router to route
> traffic to VPN appliance.
> 
> Our use case like this:
> Traffic to other openstack will be routed to qr-xx interface, other traffic
> still be routed to qg-xx interface for SNAT.
> And we want to try OVN, so there will have 2 OVN. Each OVN must can be
> programed with static route and arp table.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Steve Ruan(阮诗新)
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> 
> From:	Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
> To:	Shi Xin Ruan/China/IBM at IBMCN
> Cc:	dev at openvswitch.org, discuss at openvswitch.org
> Date:	01/21/2016 12:15 PM
> Subject:	Re: [ovs-dev] will ovn support dynamic routing protocol
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:44:34AM +0800, Shi Xin Ruan wrote:
> > I search the VTEP information, all say that VTEP only can bridge a single
> > virtual network to vlan network.
> > Our use case want thst OVN can support static routes.
> >
> > And I also notice that vtep schema has tables like "Logical_Router" "
> > static_routes", "Arp_Sources_Local" "Arp_Sources_Remote".
> > This tables will be used to implement l3 routing, right?
> >
> > Is this function supported in OVN? or in the plan?
> 
> OVN supports L3 routing within logical networks.  I don't know what kind
> of routing you need.
> 
>