[ovs-discuss] Tunnels with duplicate configuration

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Sat May 30 17:19:18 UTC 2015


On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:16:50AM -0700, Keith Holleman wrote:
> Dang, so I take it from the nature of the patch that what you are doing is
> failing the second add of the duplicate tunnel.  This requires the user of
> OVS to manage any duplicate tunnel usage in some other layer and handle
> tracking the reference/users.   Is that correct?  Perfectly reasonable
> solution but I love when someone else solves my problems :-)

Suppose we decided to support duplicate tunnels.  Then, which one of the
set of duplicates is the ingress port for a packet received on the
tunnel?  I don't know a reasonable answer.



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