[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch and Linux containers

[Aishwarya]

HI Jesse,

Thanks. Let me try this and get back to you.

Thanks,
Aish

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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