[ovs-discuss] Any idea to minimize the number of vlans

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:11:24AM +0200, Madko wrote:
> How to deal with that? Is there a way to do some kind on VLAN
> translation (like NAT)? We really need to keep the VLAN tagged
> interface inside the VM, but we don't really care in the backbone
> (it's a dedicated one). Do we have to use openflow/nox? We sure need
> some centralized controller to keep a translation table or something
> like that.

Open vSwitch doesn't support VLAN translation by itself, but yes, you
can do VLAN translation with OpenFlow.

If VLAN translation is a sufficiently general feature that can be
well-specified, then we'd consider accepting a patch that does a good
job of implementing it.