[ovs-discuss] NAT support

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Fri Nov 9 07:36:52 UTC 2012


No, there's no native support for NAT in OVS.  It's possible to do header rewrites with it, but you'd need a controller to manage that.  Also, even that wouldn't support ALG-like functionality that many people expect when they refer to NAT.

--Justin


On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Somnath Mani <manisil at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi
> I am new to this mailing list and to open vswitch dev in general. I went through available documentation but could not find any mention of NAT.
> Does OVS support NAT functionality in the switch?
> Thanks
> Somnath
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