On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:08:10PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:25:46AM -0700, Justin Pettit wrote: > > You are correct that we don't have support for rewriting. Do you > > have a use-case? As you know, OpenFlow has support for IPv4 address > > rewriting, but I haven't found great use-cases for that. NAT comes > > to mind, but that often carries a bunch of other baggage (e.g., ARP > > resolution) that seems to make it less useful. L3 address rewriting > > also seems to have limited support in the hardware ASICs that I've > > seen. > > > > It probably wouldn't be hard to add, but I'd be genuinely interested > > to know how people are using it. > > OpenFlow defines IPv4 header rewrite, and you probably already > support rewriting L2 addresses in IPv6 packets. It would seem logical > to offer IPv6 header rewrite when we include IPv6 in the spec, so > that's why I'm asking to see if there is practical problems.
I don't know of practical problems. I don't know of a reason we'd turn down a code contribution, either. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
