[ovs-discuss] Identical VM-MACs with Open vSwitch?

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Dec 9 17:25:49 UTC 2011


On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 11:05:16AM +0100, Trebor Forban wrote:
> I would be very thankful for any insight, as to how I might be able to
> "cloak" identical MACs.
> Can Open vSwitch realize this with VLANs, or maybe some type of MAT (MAC-NAT)?

Open vSwitch supports VLANs, so if VLANs solve your problem then yes
that is one possibility.

I think that you could implement MAC translation using OpenFlow
rules.  I have not implemented a MAC translation solution before, so I
don't know what issues are likely to come up.



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