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

[Xiao Liang (xiaolia)]

It works now. Thanks a lot.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Gross [mailto:jesse at nicira.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 14:37
> 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:
>
> > -----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?
> 
> Yes, since they are operating as independent switches.