[ovs-discuss] about use ovs to construct complex virtual network topologies

[Weiwei Fang]

Thanks, Jesse. And I want to ask, if I want to put all these four ovs to
work in a physical host, whether they should be configured as four bridges?

2013/1/11 Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Weiwei Fang <fangvv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all, hi!
> >
> > I am a new user to ovs. I am now having a project which needs to
> construct
> > virtual network topology. I want to use ovs but I don't know if the
> > following requirements can be satisfied.
> >
> > I want to construct a topology with four ovs, namely o1, o2, o3 and o4.
> The
> > connection is o1-o3, o1-o4, o2-o3, o2-o4. For o1 and o2, I want to bind
> each
> > of them to two real NIC (while in the cookbook, we bind only one NIC),
> > through which each ovs can connect to two real switches outside. For o3
> and
> > o4, I don't want to bind them to any real NIC, but the VMs will connect
> to
> > them. Actually, this is a three-level network, in which the low level ovs
> > (o3, o4) connect to VMs, which the mid level ovs (o1, o2) connects to two
> > high level real switches. The VMs can be inter-connected.
> >
> > I don't know if it is possible to do that? Thanks for your kindly help!
>
> It's likely possible but please try it and come back if you have
> specific questions.
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