[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch and Linux containers

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Aishwarya <aishu85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> Could you elaborate a little on that? I did not exactly get that. The vms
> within different containers can have the same ip addresses. For eg, lets say
> container 1 C1 has vm 1. Container 2 C2 also has vm 2. Now,I have another
> host with 2 containers as well, C3 AND C4, both of which have a vm 3 and vm4
> respectively which have the same ip addresses. Now, I want all packets going
> from C1 to go to C3 and from C2 to go to C4. When I configure flows for this
> within the root namespace, I will have 2 flows for destination address of
> vm3/vm4, one of them saying that any packet destined for this address should
> go to C3 and the other saying packet destined to this same address should go
> to C4. This is my confusion. How will this work?

You can match on input port as well in order to scope the flows for IP
addresses.