[ovs-dev] [PATCH v10 2/2] ovn-northd: Add logical flows to support native DHCP

Numan Siddique nusiddiq at redhat.com
Thu Jun 9 00:12:25 UTC 2016


Sorry for the typo Ramu
On Jun 9, 2016 5:40 AM, "Numan Siddique" <nusiddiq at redhat.com> wrote:

> Thanks Dani for testing the patches.
> Regards
> Numan
> On Jun 9, 2016 12:25 AM, "Ramu Ramamurthy" <ramu.ramamurthy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I tested and verified this patchset using the corresponding WIP
>> openstack dhcp patch.
>> native-dhcp works end-to-end as advertized - I tested with the default
>> dhcp-options
>> that are used when VMs boot.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> > OVN implements a native DHCP support which caters to the common
>> > use case of providing an IP address to a booting instance by
>> > providing stateless replies to DHCP requests based on statically
>> > configured address mappings. To do this it allows a short list of
>> > DHCP options to be configured and applied at each compute host
>> > running ovn-controller.
>> >
>> > A new table 'Subnet' is added in OVN NB DB to store the DHCP options.
>> >
>> > For each logical port following flows are added if the CMS has defined
>> > DHCP options in the 'Subnet' column
>> >
>> >  - A logical flow which copies the DHCP options to the DHCP
>> >    request packets using the 'put_dhcp_opts' action and advances the
>> >    packet to the next stage.
>> >
>> >  - A logical flow which implements the DHCP reponder by sending
>> >    the DHCP reply back to the inport once the 'put_dhcp_opts' action
>> >    is applied.
>> >
>> > Signed-Off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
>>
>



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