[ovs-discuss] Apply some packet manipulation actions on outgoing port traffic

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Mon Oct 9 20:13:04 UTC 2017


OVS doesn't support GTP yet, but I know that there's some ongoing work
on it.

GRE and VXLAN should be fine.

If you need GTP support, maybe the best thing to do would be to help out
the folks who are working on it.

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:35:42PM +0200, Juraj Markotic wrote:
> Hello,
> thanks for feedback.
> I know OVS can truncate payload and that in can modify mac/IPs in header
> (i.e. like doing NAT).
> I also know OVS can deencapsulate GRE (of VXLAN) when packet is arriving on
> tunnel OVS interface (done automatically).
> But I was not aware that OVS can remove tunnel headers when switching
> incoming GTP/GRE/VXLAN header and extract inside packet (with totally new
> src/dst ip) and send it out.
> Can you share some OVS cli example for such ?
> we have network packet broker (NPB) with OVS, so if NPB is delivering
> tunnel packets, it would be great if we could remove tunnel headers before
> delivering it to the (monitoring) tool on outgoing port.
> 
> thanks,
> jm
> 
> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:19:17PM +0200, Juraj Markotic wrote:
> > > we would need some functionality on manipulating packets when packet is
> > > exiting outgoing OVS port.
> > > I.e. some actions could be: change/anonymize mac/IPs for src/dst, or
> > remove
> > > some tunnel header (vxlan, gtp, gre), truncate the payload etc.
> >
> > OVS has actions for modifying headers and it can decapsulate tunnels and
> > truncate payloads.
> >
> > > So, one option can be to write some code than can be attached to OVS to
> > > packet exiting out port (i.e. some lua scripts for manipulation).
> >
> > Lua isn't needed.  You can use OpenFlow.
> >


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