[ovs-discuss] output port in another openvswitch

[Justin Pettit]

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 11:20 PM, madhu <madhuc at altencalsoftlabs.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Is it possible to set the output port to port in another openvswitch present in another compute node of openstack?
> 
> If so how the packet traverses from one openvswitch to another openvswitch in another node?
> 
> Is it through the overlay/underlay networks?
> 
> Can anybody paste me a sample flow rule for this?

There are some examples of people setting up tunnels to do this if you search around.  If you're looking for something more robust and complete, you might check out OVN, which works with OVS and has OpenStack bindings.  It will be part of the OVS 2.6 release.

--Justin