[ovs-discuss] Roadmap for DPDK usespace NAT

[Ben Pfaff]

We do not generally add new features in a release branch.  So any new
features will appear on master, then in 2.7 or later, but not on 2.6.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:21:11AM +0800, 张东亚 wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> So that means the only thing we can know is NAT for DPDK is not
> implemented, can we expect it be released with first 2.6 release?
> 
> I tried to googling, however does not find some existing patch for the
> feature.
> 
> 2016-09-19 0:23 GMT+08:00 Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:24:57PM +0800, 张东亚 wrote:
> > > From ovs 2.6 branch NEWS file, it have stated the following sentence:
> > >
> > > Basic connection tracking for the userspace datapath (no ALG,
> > > fragmentation or NAT support yet)
> > >
> > > I am wonder what's the developmenent schedule for userspace NAT based on
> > > DPDK, will it be released with first OVS 2.6 release?
> >
> > We only add items to NEWS after they're implemented.
> >