[ovs-discuss] OVN - CIF

[Justin Pettit]

> On Oct 8, 2015, at 12:24 AM, Murali R <muralirdev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I see this statement in the the arch doc http://benpfaff.org/~blp/dist-docs/ovn-architecture.7.html
> 
> "OVN uses this mechanism and uses VLAN as the tagging mechanism.",
> 
> after providing 2 methods of CIF handling - 1:1 vif mapped or parent mapped. From other discussions it looked like one could have "overlay" or "underlay" modes for ovn. So is this a new development in version 7 of the arch?

Guru answered your actual questions, but I just wanted to point out that the "7" is not a version; it's the section of the man page.  Here's a wikipedia article describing the different sections:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections

--Justin