[ovs-discuss] Connection ovs-vswitchd over IPv6

[Henning Rogge]

On 09/04/2013 04:26 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> It is probably a mistake to run the ovs database server (osvdb-server)
> remotely.  It is not a recommended configuration.  ovsdb-server and
> ovs-vswitchd should run on the same device.

I know... its just that the device has only 4 MB of flash and 16 MB of 
RAM, so I am looking for ways to minimize the local footprint of 
openvswitch.

Maybe it will fit with the local database.

> IPv6 is not currently supported, but it is not a design choice, it is
> only a missing feature.  We would gladly accept patches to add support
> for IPv6.

I have looked a little bit more into the OpenVSwitch 1.9.0 codebase for 
the IPv4/IPv6 thing.

The main trouble I see is that the libs/stream*.[ch] abstraction is only 
able to work with IPv4 at the moment, both the variables and the 
functions directly use 32-bit integers for IP addresses.

Do you think a that a change of the stream abstraction library would be 
reasonably contained within the library, or will this spread out through 
the rest of openvswitch?

Henning Rogge

-- 
Diplom-Informatiker Henning Rogge , Fraunhofer-Institut für
Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE
Kommunikationssysteme (KOM)
Fraunhofer Straße 20, 53343 Wachtberg, Germany
Telefon +49 228 9435-961,   Fax +49 228 9435 685
mailto:henning.rogge at fkie.fraunhofer.de http://www.fkie.fraunhofer.de

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 6169 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/attachments/20130905/810a34a7/attachment.p7s>