[ovs-discuss] vxlan and vdp with OVS

[Chris Wright]

* Milton Xu (milxu at yahoo.com) wrote:
> VDP stands for VSI discovery and configuration protocol as specified in IEEE P802.1Qbg draft.

VDP (on linux) is supported via the userspace daemon, lldpad.  The way
it's typically used is in conjuction with libvirt and a special purpose
switch called macvtap, where libvirt triggers the VDP associate messages
on VM launch.
 
thanks,
-chris