[ovs-discuss] Re : Re : GRE support

[DarkBls]

I see, so if I want to have a fully centralized datase configuration for all my OvS (hardware distributed) I must wait to have OpenFlow configuration protocol added, right ? (and code my own configuration server ?)




----- Message d'origine ----
De : Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
À : DarkBls <darkbls at yahoo.com>
Envoyé le : Ven 22 Janvier 2010, 10 h 20 min 51 s
Objet : Re: Re : [ovs-discuss] GRE support

The configuration database (ovsdb-server) runs locally on the switch.  ovs-vswitchd connects to ovsdb-server over a JSON-RPC unix domain socket.  Configuration changes made in the database are immediately reflected in the switch.  In fact, programs such as ovs-vsctl communicate over the same mechanism and won't return until the changes have actually been implemented in ovs-vswitchd.  

This JSON-RPC protocol will be the same one used by the OpenFlow configuration protocol.

--Justin


On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:49 AM, DarkBls wrote:

> Thanks you for that.
> 
> For my own issue GRE tunnel would be very very interresting since 802.1ad is quite difficult to implement. Some switch doesn't support it in my infrastructure (BNT/Nortel) and I don't know what will be their behavior if they see double tagged frame. Further more, the linux drivers shoud support it too.
> 
> A centralized configuration database and GRE support would be quit a nice solution. Are the DB polled regulary to see if the configuration changed ? What's the trigger ?
> 
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> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
> À : DarkBls <darkbls at yahoo.com>
> Cc : discuss at openvswitch.org
> Envoyé le : Ven 22 Janvier 2010, 9 h 30 min 32 s
> Objet : Re: [ovs-discuss] GRE support
> 
> Yes, if your kernel supports GRE tunnels and you create them externally with some program like "ip", you should be able to attach them as you would other system devices.  The support added to GRE does the following:
> 
>    - Ethernet over GRE was added to Linux 2.6.28, and it took a while before all the bugs were ironed out.  We've back-ported support and fixes all the way back to at least 2.6.18.
> 
>    - You can directly configure the GRE tunnels through OVS's configuration database.  This means that if you're using a remote configuration protocol like the one coming to OpenFlow (1.0.5?), you'll be able to remotely setup and configure your GRE tunnels.
> 
> We're also working on a few other improvements, such as support for PMTU.  The ones I listed above are what's immediately available in the "next" branch.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> 
> On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:21 AM, DarkBls wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I know that GRE is already there in the unstable branch and will be "available" (documented) in the stable branch within a couple of month.
>> 
>> Can someone explain me what is the OvS support of GRE exactly ? Does'nt this already work ? :
>> 
>> Server A with OvS (#1)
>>     GRE tunnel to Server B displayed as gretapB
>> Server B with OvS (#2)
>> GRE tunnel to Server A displayed as gretapA
>> 
>> gretapA added ni OvS1 and gretapB added in OvS2
>> 
>> Thank you for your explaination
>> 
>> 
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