[ovs-discuss] Bonding with arp monitoring

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Mon Jul 8 21:19:51 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:18:19AM +0200, Luke Gorrie wrote:
> On 2 July 2013 06:45, Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com> wrote:
> > The only supported methods are miimon, carrier, and LACPDUs (for LACP
> > bonds, obviously).
> 
> Just curious. Do you guys consider it good practice for users like Piotr to
> implement new bonding methods within a controller application? Is this
> higher-level functionality considered interesting/in-scope/on-topic in the
> context of Open vSwitch, or do you prefer that kind of discussion be taken
> up in the context of a specific controller e.g. on the Floodlight mailing
> list?
> 
> Curious because higher-level features like ARP/ICMP/BFD monitoring and
> failover functionality seem to me like a great application area for the
> OpenFlow model. That's something that's already a pain to deal with in a
> multi-vendor context e.g. between a Cisco and a Juniper and seems like it
> could be neatly handled by a controller injecting and catching health check
> packets in strategic places.

It's fine to implement whatever bonding mode you like with a
controller.  If that fits your application, then that's awesome, and
I'm glad to hear it.



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