[ovs-discuss] Multiple Virtual Wireless Ports
Michael Williams
mw7301 at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 27 17:28:21 UTC 2017
Hi Ben,
I don't think I explained it properly. Between the wired ports we can apply Openflow rules to limit traffic between computers connected via those wired ports, and that works with standard OvS. On the wireless WiFi side I would like to be able do the same thing and to limit the traffic between WiFi connected devices.
Since WiFi only has one interface and not multiple individual ports like the wired stuff, my rules for dropping traffic between ports won't work. So I was wondering if there was someway with OvS to limit or stop traffic between WiFi connected computers?
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From: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 12:57 PM
To: Michael Williams
Cc: ovs-discuss at openvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [ovs-discuss] Multiple Virtual Wireless Ports
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 01:33:23PM +0000, Michael Williams wrote:
> We have OvS running on a wireless router with 4 wired Ethernet
> ports. We can apply rules on the wired ports but when we try to apply
> rules on the wireless port the rules don't work between multiple
> wireless devices. Is there a way within OvS to treat the wireless
> interface like multiple virtual ports so that when a wireless device
> connects we can apply rules to govern behavior between the wireless
> devices like we can with the wired devices?
OVS doesn't distinguish between different kinds of ports, so the
restrictions you're describing don't make sense; OVS doesn't work that
way. You might be using a vendor's modified version of OVS. If so,
then you should ask the vendor for assistance.
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