[ovs-discuss] NOX and GRE

[Martin Casado]

The config protocol is part of the upcoming OF 1.0 spec 
(http://openflowswitch.org/wk/index.php/Config_Protocol).  The idea is 
to have a more robust method of managing less dynamic switch state (in 
particular, configuration).

GRE however is not in OF (yet) so this will be an extension to the 
config protocol schema.
.martin

> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. One clarification though - by "a more
> general config protocol", do you mean it's going to somehow subsume or
> replace the OpenFlow protocol? I guess what I'm wondering is if the
> current NOX applications will run unmodified and can be easily
> extended to take advantage of new features of Open vSwitch with the
> more general config protocol.
>
> - Steve
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Martin Casado <casado at nicira.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> The plan is to support configuration of logical ports (e.g. GRE) through a
>> more general config protocol (json-rpc based).  We are currently in the
>> process of porting this to the next release of Nox (which will surface in
>> the next couple of weeks).  So, yes, support should be there.
>>
>> .martin
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if I could still use NOX to push rules related to GRE
>>> tunneling to Open vSwitches. As far as I understand, there is no
>>> OpenFlow spec related to GRE tunneling, so I was curious if NOX has
>>> been extended to control and use features specific to Open vSwitch. If
>>> this is true, is there any document on this? Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> - Steve
>>>
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>>