[ovs-discuss] Forward VxLAN packets in network namespace?

[Xiao Liang (xiaolia)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Gross [mailto:jesse at nicira.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 21:55
> To: Xiao Liang (xiaolia)
> Cc: discuss at openvswitch.org
> Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Forward VxLAN packets in network namespace?
> 
> On Monday, September 7, 2015, Xiao Liang (xiaolia) <xiaolia at cisco.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	The problem is that I want to add a VxLAN port to OVS bridge and let
> the tunnel packets be routed in a particular netns.
> 
> 	In VxLAN vport code I found that the namespace of the tunnel sock is
> inherited from dp. I could add a dp by "ip netns exec ns1 ovs-dpctl add-dp
> br1", but how can I use it then? I've also tried "ip netns exec ns1 ovs-vsctl
> add-br br1" and "ip link set br1 netns ns1", but seems not work.
> 
> 
> 
> You can only change the namespace of OVS as whole. To do that you, you
> should start ovs-vswitchd in that namespace. If you want to route tunnel
> packets to a different namespace, you'll have to do that through the routing
> table.

Thanks! If I start multiple ovs-vswitchd each in a different namespace, need I also start multiple ovsdb?