[ovs-dev] Question on L3 Logical Router in vtep-emulator

[Kyle Mestery]

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org> wrote:
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> On 26 May 2016 at 07:13, Kyle Mestery <mestery at mestery.com> wrote:
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>> Greetings!
>>
>> I was looking for some L3 related items and came across the following
>> patch on patchworks [1]. This was some work done to add L3 routing to
>> the vtep emulator. Guru had commented on this indicating the
>> usefulness for using the vtep-emulator as a L3 edge device, but he had
>> a bunch of comments around the approach taken by Shuangmin. I never
>> saw a reply to Guru on list. What is the status of the thinking here?
>> I also see value in this as an L3 edge device.
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> We do have a more sophisticated L3 gateway related patches out for review
> for OVN (This does not integrate with VTEP schema). Was your interest with
> L3 gateway in general or VTEP schema based L3 gateway in particular?
>
Thanks Guru. I was looking at the VTEP schema based L3 GW as well, and
wondering if this patch had pretty much been abandoned. I can see some
use for using VTEP as an L3 edge device.

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>>
>> Thanks!
>> Kyle
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>> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/553435/
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