[ovs-discuss] ARP Behavior in XenServer Host

David Erickson derickso at stanford.edu
Fri Sep 9 19:07:22 UTC 2011


On 9/9/2011 12:05 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 02:55:18PM -0400, Nicholas Bastin wrote:
>> Would you accept a patch to OVS which allowed a user to configure a single
>> VLAN to which the in-band rules applied?  Basically, instead of wildcarding
>> the VLAN tag on all the in-band rules, it would optionally set them all to
>> use the configured VLAN, and then the in-band rules wouldn't affect any
>> traffic for other VLANs (even though it would previously have hit those
>> rules).
>>
>> The default behaviour would still be the current behaviour, this would just
>> be an additional knob for a user to tweak if they thought it would work
>> better for them.
> It seems reasonable to me, if it solves David's problem.
>

I think it actually just shifts the work around to other sections of the 
network, I'd be interested in your feedback on my proposal (which I 
think I'm going to implement and try out).

-D



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