[ovs-discuss] Whether ovs can support LLDP in the specific scenario?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 01:32:58AM +0000, niejiuxing wrote:
> I have a question about whether ovs will have a schedule to support
> LLDP by any way, like app or plugin? Because We have a scenario that
> needs LLDP capability in ovs. In the following figure, assuming
> there's no controller, only two ovs which seperately has one attached
> vm. there's a physcial switch connecting to the server. Now We hope
> ovs can actively announce its switching capabilities to outside
> physical switch and let physical switch know the ovs inside and the
> topology in the server.
> 
> if ovs plans to support lldp in the future, is there a schedule? or if
> doesn't plan to do it, is there any other method that can use in our
> scenario?

I don't know of plans for general-purpose LLDP support.

You can implement LLDP on OVS with an OpenFlow controller.