[ovs-discuss] Using Open vSwitch as a Layer 3 switch

Justin Pettit jpettit at nicira.com
Fri Nov 22 07:49:19 UTC 2013


On Nov 21, 2013, at 9:33 PM, Balaji P <Balaji.P at freescale.com> wrote:

> Can you please give us some information/FAQ on routing using OpenVSwitch.

OVS doesn't natively support full L3 routing.  I think Ben just meant that it's possible to apply rules based on L3 addresses.  OVS does support modifying the fields that you'd need for routing (ie, the destination MAC address and IP TTL).  However, this would either have to be from statically configured rules or you'd need to implement a IP routing controller that would take care of ARP resolution and programming the appropriate flows.

--Justin





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