[ovs-discuss] OVS and L2 loop preventation protocol like Extreme ESRP

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Dec 1 18:15:00 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:27:01AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:19:01PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote:
> > Any plans to support simple L2 loop preventation protocols like
> > Extreme's ESRP in OVS?
> 
> I am not aware of any work on that.
> 

Ok.

> > http://apps.extremenetworks.com/libraries/whitepapers/technology/VRRPvsESRP_WP.asp
> > http://www.techopsguys.com/2009/12/02/extremely-simple-redundancy-protocol/
> 
> The latter article says: "Extreme Proprietary protocol. To me this is
> not a big deal as you only run this protocol at the core. Downstream
> switches can be any vendor."  Open vSwitch doesn't usually run at the
> core of a network but at the edge.  Also, it might be difficult to
> correctly implement a proprietary vendor protocol.
>

Yep. It doesn't have to be exactly ESRP.. that was the first one I could think of :)

-- Pasi




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